Airdrie railway station is a railway station

Train station

A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 serving the town of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire

Airdrie, North Lanarkshire

Airdrie is a town within North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on a plateau roughly 400 ft above sea level, and is approximately 12 miles east of Glasgow city centre. Airdrie forms part of a conurbation with its neighbour Coatbridge, in the former district known as the Monklands. As of 2006,...

, Scotland

Scotland

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. The station is managed by First ScotRail

First ScotRail

ScotRail Railways Ltd. is the FirstGroup-owned train operating company running domestic passenger trains within Scotland, northern England and the cross-border Caledonian Sleeper service to London using the brand ScotRail which is the property of the Scottish Government...

 and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line

North Clyde Line

The North Clyde Line is a suburban railway in West Central Scotland. The route is operated by First ScotRail, on behalf of Transport Scotland...

, 17 km (10.6 mi) east of Glasgow Queen Street.

History

Opened by the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway

Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway

The Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway, also known as the "New Monkland Line", was built by Monkland Railways. It opened on 28 July 1863. The line was absorbed into the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on 31 July 1865...

 and absorbed into the North British Railway

North British Railway

The North British Railway was a Scottish railway company that was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the Grouping in 1923.-History:...

, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway

London and North Eastern Railway

The London and North Eastern Railway was the second-largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain...

 during the Grouping

Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act 1921, also known as the Grouping Act, was an enactment by the British government of David Lloyd George intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition, and to retain some of the benefits which...

 of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways

Scottish Region of British Railways

The Scottish Region was one of the six regions created on British Railways and consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway and ex-London and North Eastern Railway lines in Scotland...

 on nationalisation in 1948. British Railways then ran the station for Strathclyde PTE, and continued to do so as ScotRail

ScotRail

ScotRail was a brand name used for all Scottish regional and commuter rail services, including some cross-border services, from 1997 to 2004....

 when sectorisation

British Rail brand names

British Rail was the brand image of the nationalised railway owner and operator in Great Britain, the British Railways Board, used from 1965 until its breakup and sell-off from 1993 onwards....

 was introduced, until the privatisation of British Rail

Privatisation of British Rail

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ways.

As part of the Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link

Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link

The Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link is a railway in central Scotland.Instigated as part of a round of transport improvement projects proposed by the then Scottish Executive in 2003, the plan was to open up a fourth direct railway link between the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. The project was...

 reopening, the station has been refurbished, including the reinstatment of the second through platform with a capability of holding 9 carriages opposite the current Platform 2, which has been extended and a large car park facility (see link in sources below).

Services

2008

The station was served by half hourly trains from to and return, which used Platform 2.

Platform 1 was used by trains from Airdrie to , providing a 15 minute frequency towards Glasgow Queen Street, Monday to Saturday daytimes.

In addition to this, there were some peak time express services to . These called at Coatdyke, Coatbridge Sunnyside and Blairhill before running fast to High Street

High Street (Glasgow) railway station

High Street Railway Station is a railway station which serves High Street in Glasgow, Scotland and the surrounding area. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line.-History:...

 then at all stations to Milngavie.

Evenings and Sundays, the half-hourly Drumgelloch to Helensburgh Central service operated.

May 2010 to December 2010

Following closure of the original Drumgelloch station as part of the Airdrie to Bathgate project (which included the construction of a new station to the east of the 1989 station), a half-hourly bus service operated to and from Drumgelloch station to connect with services arriving from Glasgow and Helensburgh.

From 12 December 2010

Following the opening of the line between Airdrie and Bathgate, the basic off-peak daytime service is:

• 2tph - to/from
• 2tph - to/from
• 2tph - Airdrie to/from

The evening service is:

• 2tph - to/from
• 2tph - to/from

The Sunday service is:

• 2tph - to/from
• 2tph - Airdrie to/from (12 & 19 December 2010)