Hartwood railway station is a railway station serving Hartwood in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the Shotts Line, 19 miles (31 km) east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge. It is managed by ScotRail.
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 Hartwood following electrification in 2019 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Hartwood, North Lanarkshire Scotland | ||||
| Coordinates | 55°48′40″N 3°50′20″W / 55.8112°N 3.8389°W | ||||
| Grid reference | NS848590 | ||||
| Managed by | ScotRail | ||||
| Transit authority | Strathclyde Partnership for Transport | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | HTW | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1 May 1889 | ||||
| Original company | Cleland and Midcalder Line | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | LMSR | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  11,628 | ||||
| 2019/20 |  11,846 | ||||
| 2020/21 | 1,662 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 7,486 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 11,802 | ||||
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The station was built within the grounds of Hartwood Hospital, a major psychiatric hospital, which used to provide the bulk of the passenger traffic. A short mineral branch once ran from the far side of the northern platform to the main hospital buildings to transport coal and other commodities.[2]
This hospital was closed in 1998, with its services transferred to the nearby Hartwoodhill Hospital, but this is too far away to make use of the railway station. The station was partially rebuilt in 2018 and the line electrified with full electric services starting from the May 19th change of timetable in 2019.
Services
editIt is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one ScotRail stopping service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley and return. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell and the first eastbound train of the day begins there.[3] On Sundays, there is now a limited (six trains per day each) way service to both Glasgow and Edinburgh throughout the year, which is supplemented on Sundays on the run up to Christmas by additional hourly trains to/from Glasgow via Whifflet.
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Shotts | ScotRail Shotts Line |
Cleland | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Shotts | Cleland and Midcalder Line Caledonian Railway |
Omoa | ||
References
edit- ^ Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
- ^ Lanarkshire Sheet XIII.SW, Surveyed: 1897, Published: 1899
- ^ GB National Rail Timetable May 2016, Table 224 (Network Rail)
Sources
edit- Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
- Yonge, John (May 1987). Gerald Jacobs (ed.). British Rail Track Diagrams - Book 1: ScotRail (1st ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. ISBN 0-9006-0948-6.
- Yonge, John (February 1993). Gerald Jacobs (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams - Book 1: Scotland and the Isle of Man (2nd ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. ISBN 0-9006-0995-8.
- Yonge, John (April 1996). Gerald Jacobs (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams - Book 1: Scotland and the Isle of Man (3rd ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. ISBN 1-8983-1919-7.
- Yonge, John (2007). Gerald Jacobs (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams - Book 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (Quail Track Plans) (fifth ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps (formerly Quail Map Co). ISBN 978-0-9549866-3-6. OCLC 79435248.
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