Uddingston railway station

For other uses, see Uddingston East railway station and Uddingston West railway station.

Uddingston
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Location
Place	Uddingston
Local authority	South Lanarkshire
Coordinates
Grid reference	NS693608
Operations
Station code	UDD
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.533 million
2005/06	0.581 million
2006/07	0.616 million
2007/08	0.647 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Clydesdale Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
1 June 1849	Opened as Uddingston
3 March 1952	Renamed as Uddingston Central
1962?	Renamed as Uddingston
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Uddingston from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Uddingston railway station serves the town of Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is located on the Argyle Line and Shotts Line. Passenger services are provided by Abellio ScotRail.

History

The station was opened as Uddingston by the Clydesdale Junction Railway on 1 June 1849. Following nationalisation of the UK railway network in 1948, the station was renamed Uddingston Central to avoid confusion with the nearby Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway station also of the same name, renamed Uddingston East the following year, only to close in 1955. At some time prior to, or during, electrification of the Cathcart Circle Lines and the Clydesdale Junction Railway from Newton to Motherwell the station name reverted to Uddingston.

Overview

The main entrance is located on Station Road. Passengers travel through the Ticket Office and the "Coffee Stop" to Platform 1 (Glasgow-bound trains). Platform 2 (Motherwell/Edinburgh-bound trains) and the car park are accessible by a footbridge over the double line.

Refurbishments

The station has received major investment in recent years funded by ScotRail, SPT and South Lanarkshire Council. Improvements include:

• £610,000 investment in more than doubling the amount of parking spaces and improving pedestrian access
• installation of an automatic ticket vending machine and renewal of ticketing system within booking office
• the opening of the "Coffee Stop"
• addition of hanging baskets and floral beds through working with the local community
• new station seating both on platforms and within the waiting room
• installation of state-of-the-art flat-screen Passenger Information System displays for both platforms and waiting area
• addition of fully accessible public toilets on Platform 1
• addition of public telephone on Platform 1
• refurbishment of the waiting room on Platform 1 to meet accessibility requirements including automatic doors and accessible ticket counter

Services

East and West Coast Main Line trains pass through the station to/from Glasgow Central but do not stop. Argyle Line services do however call every half hour in each direction throughout the week. These formerly provided through links to Central Low Level via Rutherglen and then onwards to Dalmuir via Yoker northbound and to Motherwell southbound (alternate services continue to Lanark).

Following a major timetable recast associated with electrification of the Whifflet Line in December 2014 however, northbound trains now run to Central High Level every 30 minutes and southbound trains all proceed to Lanark via Bellshill & Shieldmuir (alternate trains terminate at Motherwell on Sundays). Passengers wishing to reach destinations on the routes via Central Low Level must change at Cambuslang or transfer between the main line and Low Level platforms at Central for onward connections.

The hourly stoppers (two-hourly Sundays) on the Shotts Line to Edinburgh Waverley also serve the station.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bellshill		Abellio ScotRail Shotts Line		Cambuslang
		Abellio ScotRail Argyle Line
	Historical railways
Motherwell Line and station open		Caledonian Railway Clydesdale Junction Railway		Newton Line and station open
Bellshill Line and station open		Caledonian Railway Cleland and Midcalder Line		Terminus

References

Sources

• RAILSCOT on Clydesdale Junction Railway
• RAILSCOT on Cleland and Midcalder Line