Armadale
Location type
StationName and dates
Armadale (2010-)Station code: ARM National Rail ScotRail
Where: West Lothian, Scotland
Opened on the Boghead to Cowdenhead Branch (Monkland Railways).
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Bathgate and Airdrie.
Description
This is a two platform station with a large car park on the north side.
The station was opened on the site of a loop (the New Monkland Line was single track when first opened)). It replaces Armadale [1st] which was jsut to the west and closed in 1956.
The line here was closed between 1982 and 2010.
Tags
StationFacilities
Gaelic name: Armadal
| Nearby stations Armadale [1st] Whitburn Bathgate Lower Blackridge Bathgate Upper Bathgate [1st] Bathgate [4th] Bathgate Westcraigs Foulshiels Westfield Bents Longridge [2nd] Longridge [1st] Blackston Junction | Bathville Steel Works Armadale Junction Bathville Brick and Tile Works Fireclay Quarry Coal Pit Etna Brick Works [Bathville] Atlas Brick Works Atlas Steel Foundry West Lothian Steel Foundry Torbane Pit No 2 Coal Pit Boghead Works Iron and Coal Pit Torbanehill Pit No 7 Barbauchlaw Colliery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 11/08/1862 | New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways)
Torbanehill and Bathgate Branch (Monkland Railways) Opened to passenger trains. Stations at Airdrie South, Clarkston [NBR], Caldercruix, Forrestfield and Westcraigs on the new line. New station further east on the Torbanehill line at Armadale. |
| 12/12/2010 | New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways)
Boghead to Cowdenhead Branch (Monkland Railways)
Torbanehill and Bathgate Branch (Monkland Railways) Opened between Airdrie and Bathgate. Stations at Drumgelloch, Caldercruix (delayed opening until 13 February), Blackridge, Armadale. |
