Carfin railway station

Carfin railway station is a railway station serving both Carfin and Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is 14 miles (22 km) southeast of Glasgow Central railway station on the Shotts Line between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Carfin Scottish Gaelic: An Càrm Fionn[1]
Carfin in 2019, following electrification
General information
Location	Newarthill, North Lanarkshire Scotland
Coordinates	55.8076°N 3.9556°W / 55.8076; -3.9556
Grid reference	NS775588
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CRF
History
Original company	LMS
Key dates
?[2]	Opened as Carfin Halt
1 December 1930[2]	Closed
?[2]	Reopened
16 May 1983[2]	Renamed
Passengers
2018/19	0.101 million
2019/20	0.102 million
2020/21	17,510
2021/22	65,146
2022/23	87,220
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

It contains two platforms; one for trains in the direction of Glasgow, and the other for trains to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts.

Like the following stop on the Shotts Line, Holytown, the location of the station is ambiguous. It is located on the border between Carfin and Newarthill, for much of its recent history closer to a housing estate in the latter. It is now bordered immediately on both sides by housing developments.

Services

Trains from Carfin station provide an hourly service to the heart of Glasgow, stopping along the way at Holytown, Bellshill and Uddingston. Cambuslang is only served at peak times (and has been since December 213), whilst there is a single evening train to Motherwell. In the opposite direction there is also an hourly service, calling at all stations except Breich en route to Edinburgh.^[3] A 2 hourly service runs on Sundays.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Cleland		ScotRail Shotts Line		Holytown
	Historical railways
Omoa		Cleland and Midcalder Line Caledonian Railway		Holytown
Cleland (Old) Line and station closed		Wishaw and Coltness Railway Caledonian Railway		connection to Cleland and Midcalder Line

References

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt 1995, p. 53.
3. Table 224 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• 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.

External links

• Train times and station information for Carfin railway station from National Rail
• Carfin station video history