Hartwood railway station

Hartwood
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Location
Place	Hartwood
Local authority	North Lanarkshire
Coordinates
Grid reference	NS848590
Operations
Station code	HTW
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	10,428
2004/05	14,421
2005/06	16,057
2006/07	17,758
2007/08	17,575
2008/09	20,466
2009/10	20,312
2010/11	18,826
2011/12	16,710
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
History
Key dates	Opened 1 May 1889 (1 May 1889)
Original company	Cleland and Midcalder Line
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hartwood from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Hartwood railway station is a railway station serving Hartwood in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the Shotts Line, 19 miles (31 km) east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail.

The station was built within the grounds of Hartwood Hospital, a major psychiatric hospital, which used to provide the bulk of the passenger traffic. This hospital was closed in 1999, with its services transferred to the nearby Hartwoodhill Hospital, but this is too far away to make use of the railway station.

Services

It is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one Abellio ScotRail stopping service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley and return. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell and the first eastbound train of the day begins there. On Sundays, there is now a limited (six trains per day each) way service to both Glasgow and Edinburgh throughout the year, which is supplelented on Sundays on the run up to Christmas by additional hourly trains to/from Glasgow via Whifflet.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Shotts		Abellio ScotRail Shotts Line		Cleland
	Historical railways
Shotts		Cleland and Midcalder Line Caledonian Railway		OMOA

Sources

• RAILSCOT on Cleland and Midcalder Line
• Hartwood Hospital - a brief history Scotland Genealogy