Livingston_South_railway_station

Livingston South railway station

Livingston South railway station

Railway station in West Lothian, Scotland

This article refers to the current station on the south of Livingston. See also Livingston North. For the historic stations, see Livingston and Newpark.

Livingston South railway station is one of two railway stations serving Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 14 miles (23 km) west of Edinburgh Waverley on the way to Glasgow Central. It is managed by ScotRail, who provide all train services.

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The town of Livingston also has another railway station, Livingston North, on the North Clyde Line.

History

The station was opened by British Rail on 6 October 1984.[2] The station has two platforms, connected by a subway, which was originally a cattle creep under the railway embankment at this point. The platforms were of timber construction.

In April 2018 the station underwent a £3.5 million transformation to upgrade it as part of a project to electrify the Edinburgh Waverley-Glasgow Central line.[3]

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Services

In 2010 it was served, Monday to Saturday, by one service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell and one starts from there. An additional hourly 'semi fast' service also now (May 2016) calls, giving the station a frequency of two trains per hour between Edinburgh and Glasgow. This latter service only calls at Haymarket en route to Edinburgh and at West Calder, Shotts & Bellshill when heading to Glasgow.

There is a limited Sunday service at this station to Edinburgh and Glasgow (six trains each way per day).[4]

The staple passenger traction on services using this station is the Class 385 EMU.

References

Notes

  1. [1]
    Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. [2]
    Butt (1995), page 145
  3. [3]
    "Shotts line electrification completed on time and on budget". Network Rail. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  4. [4]
    Table 224 National Rail timetable, May 2016

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