Airdrie
Location type
StationNames and dates
Airdrie South (1861-1952)Airdrie (1952-)
Station code: ADR National Rail ScotRail
Where: North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Opened on the New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways).
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Bathgate and Airdrie.
Description
This is the main station in Airdrie with three platforms, one a bay for services to Glasgow. The two main platforms are served by east-west trains from Edinburgh to Glasgow via Bathgate.
To the south of the station was the goods yard and carriage sidings, served from the west. To the north was a scrapyard also served from the west.
On the eastbound through platform, at the west end, was the signal box. This was replaced in 1960.
To the east the line was crossed by the approach to the competing Airdrie [CR] and the short Bellsdyke branch ran south to Bellsdyke Colliery. The eastern approach was protected by a sand drag siding.
The station has a car park, on the site of sidings. One of these survives alongside the bay line.
With the closure of the line east to Bathgate the eastbound platform fell out of use and the station became a terminus, with only the former westbound track continuing east to Moffat Mills (the line was singled in 1979). With the closure to freight the line a buffer was added at the east end of the platform and the track was retained out of use until the passenger service was extended east to Drumgelloch [1st]. With full re-opening to the east, the eastbound platform has been rebuilt and eastbound track relaid.
The signal box building survived its closure in 1991 for the Yoker resignalling (Yoker Signalling Centre) and remained standing on a disused platform until the line to Bathgate reopened and the box demolished and platform rebuilt.
Tags
Station terminusExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
Facilities
Gaelic name: An t-Àrd-Ruigh
| Nearby stations Airdrie [CR] Airdrie Hallcraig Street Commonhead (Airdrie North) Airdrie [Leaend] Rawyards Coatdyke Drumgelloch [1st] Cairnhill Bridge Calder Kipps Calderbank Drumgelloch Calder Iron Works [Station] Clarkston (Lanark) Carnbroe | Ironstone Pit Airdrie Shed [CR] Gartlea Foundry Victoria Engine Works Ironstone Pit North West Factory Airdrie Engine Works Cairnhill Works [Concrete] Airdrie Gas Works Albert Engineering and Boiler Works Standard Works Airdrie Junction Empire Iron Works Chapelside Boiler Works Cairnhill Junction |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Water supplyWhen the North British Railway took over the line in 1865 it was found that the water supply for locomotives was connected to the town's water supply. When a locomotive was filled it drained the system and taps ran dry. |
Chronology Dates
News items
Books
 Vanished Railways of West Lothian |
