Coatdyke railway station

Coatdyke National Rail
Coatdyke railway station
Location
Place Quarry Street/Riddell Street Coatbridge
Local authority North Lanarkshire
Coordinates 55°51′52″N 4°00′18″W / 55.8644°N 4.0050°W / 55.8644; -4.0050Coordinates: 55°51′52″N 4°00′18″W / 55.8644°N 4.0050°W / 55.8644; -4.0050
Grid reference NS746652
Operations
Station code COA
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 0.332 million
2013/14 Increase 0.343 million
2014/15 Increase 0.344 million
2015/16 Decrease 0.337 million
2016/17 Increase 0.370 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE SPT
History
Original company Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
Pre-grouping North British Railway
Post-grouping LNER
1 February 1871 Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Coatdyke from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal
Coatdyke railway station entrance

Coatdyke railway station is situated on Quarry Street/Riddell Street in the Cliftonville area of Coatbridge[1] and 10 miles (16 km) east of Glasgow Queen Street. It is the closest railway station to Coatbridge College and Monklands Hospital.

History

The station was opened as part of the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway on 1 February 1871.[2] The station now has no structures other than simple shelters. The ticket hall that was built when the Airdrie-Helensburgh line was electrified in 1960 was demolished in the early 1990s. Similar structures, built in the same style, still survive at Easterhouse and Airdrie stations.

Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes:[3]

  • Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
  • Half-hourly service towards Airdrie
  • Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
  • Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level (as of August 2016 this service no longer calls at Shettleston, Cartyne and Bellgrove. Passengers for these stations use the half-hourly service towards Balloch instead.)

Evening services are as follows:

  • Half-hourly service towards Airdrie
  • Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level

Sunday services are as follows:

  • Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
  • Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Airdrie   Abellio ScotRail
North Clyde Line
   Coatbridge Sunnyside
  Historical railways  
Airdrie
Line and Station open		   North British Railway
Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
   To Greenside Junction
with Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
Line open

Facilities

The station has a car park but is not permanently staffed.[4]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/coa/details.html" Postcode is ML6 0LZ, i.e. Airdrie
  2. ↑ Butt (1995), p64
  3. ↑ Table 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016
  4. ↑ http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/COA.aspx

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 978-1-85260-508-7. 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • RAILSCOT on Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway


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