West Calder railway station
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West Calder station in 2012
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| Location | |
| Place | West Calder |
| Local authority | West Lothian |
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| Grid reference | NT019633 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | WCL |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2004/05 |  99,864 |
| 2005/06 |  99,213 |
| 2006/07 | 96,541 |
| 2007/08 | 94,404 |
| 2008/09 | 100,938 |
| 2009/10 | 97,396 |
| 2010/11 | 109,252 |
| 2011/12 | 113,484 |
| 2012/13 | 118,164 |
| History | |
| 9 July 1869 | Opened[1] |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
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| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at West Calder from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal |
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West Calder railway station is a railway station serving West Calder in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 17 miles (28 km) west of Edinburgh Waverley on the way to Glasgow Central. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail.
Services
Since the December 2009 timetable change, the station is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one ScotRail all stops service each hour between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley. There is also a semi-fast service between the two cities each hour. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell and one starts back from there in the opposite direction. The timetable featured a limited Sunday service of one train every two hours from this station to Edinburgh.
As of December 2012 there is a two-hourly Sunday service between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley.[2]
The passenger traction on this line is the Class 156 and Class 158.
| Preceding station |  National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Livingston South | Abellio ScotRail Shotts Line |
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History
During the Midlothian Campaign of 1878-80 William Ewart Gladstone, leader of Britain's Liberal Party visited West Calder to give a foreign policy speech. Again on the 21st of November he returned during the United Kingdom general election, 1885 to give another speech
Misc.
3d model of West Calder Railway station
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