Carmyle railway station
Carmyle  | |
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| Scottish Gaelic: Cair Maol | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Carmyle |
| Local authority | Glasgow |
| Coordinates | 55°50′03″N 4°09′29″W / 55.8343°N 4.1581°WCoordinates: 55°50′03″N 4°09′29″W / 55.8343°N 4.1581°W |
| Grid reference | NS649622 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CML |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 0.127 million |
| 2011/12 |
0.135 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.143 million |
| 2013/14 |
 0.132 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.131 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway |
| Post-grouping | LMS |
| 1 August 1866 | Opened[1] |
| 1897 | Glasgow Central Railway services commence |
| 5 October 1964 | Closed[1] |
| 4 October 1993 | Re-opened[1] |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Carmyle from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Carmyle railway station is located in the Carmyle area of Glasgow. It is on the Argyle Line, 5½ miles (9 km) east of Glasgow Central railway station. Train services are provided by Abellio ScotRail.
History
Carmyle station was opened in 1866 by the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway on their route between Coatbridge and Glasgow. The line had originally been commissioned in 1865, but for goods traffic only - passenger services started on 1 August the following year, with Carmyle opening on that date.[2]
Thirty years later it became a junction, upon the opening of the Glasgow Central Railway route from Bridgeton (then known as Bridgeton Cross) in 1897.[3] This intersected the older route at the station, before continuing southwards to join the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway at a triangular junction between Kirkhill and Newton via Westburn Viaduct. This route gave access to the low level platforms at Glasgow Central and thence to the northwestern suburbs via Anderston and Maryhill Central.
Both lines were operated from the outset (and eventually taken over) by the Caledonian Railway, before passing to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at the 1923 Grouping. They then became part of the Scottish Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in January 1948.
The Glasgow Central Railway line & platforms closed to passengers on 5 October 1964 (and completely in April 1966), whilst the Coatbridge line ones followed suit on 7 November 1966, both as a result of the Beeching Axe. The GCR route was subsequently dismantled and few traces of it remain today (the old platforms were demolished when the M74 motorway extension was built), but line from Rutherglen was retained for freight traffic (mainly to/from the Ravenscraig steelworks) and periodic passenger diversions. It was then reopened as the Whifflet Line with financial backing from the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive in 1993, with Carmyle regaining its passenger service on 4 October that year. It was the first station stop on the reopened line after leaving the main line station at Glasgow Central, as the main line platforms at Rutherglen (which the original R&CR had served) had been closed following the reopening of the Argyle Line in 1979.
Electrification of the route through the station was completed in December 2014, which wasn't in time for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games as originally planned.[4] The old Diesel Multiple Unit service from Central High Level has been replaced by EMUs running via Rutherglen and the Argyle Line. This has seen the restoration of the link to Central Low Level and beyond originally lost back in 1964.
Services
A half-hourly service operates between Dalmuir (eastbound)/Milngavie (westbound) via Glasgow Central Low Level through to Whifflet on Mondays to Saturdays.[5] Every second trains is extended to/from Motherwell. On Sundays there is now an hourly service between Motherwell & Balloch that calls in each direction (prior to the December 2014 timetable alterations Sunday services only ran for the month prior to Christmas and were extended to/from Shotts).
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon | Abellio ScotRail Argyle Line |
Rutherglen | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Broomhouse Line and station open |
Caledonian Railway Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway |
Rutherglen Line open and station partially open | ||
| Newton Line closed; station open on other routes |
Caledonian Railway Glasgow Central Railway |
Tollcross Line and station closed | ||
| Kirkhill Line closed; station open on other routes |
Caledonian Railway Glasgow Central Railway and Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway |
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References
Notes
- 1 2 3 Butt (1995), page 54
- ↑ Railscot - Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway www.railbrit.co.uk; Retrieved 2014-01-14
- ↑ Railscot Chronology - Glasgow Central Railway www.railbrit.co.uk; Retrieved 2014-01-14
- ↑ Whifflet Line to be electrified before 2014 GamesBBC News; Retrieved 2014-01-14
- ↑ National Rail Timetable 2014-15; Table 225
Sources
- Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
- RAILSCOT on Glasgow Central Railway
- RAILSCOT on Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway