Bellshill railway station

Bellshill
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Location
Place	Bellshill
Local authority	North Lanarkshire
Coordinates
Grid reference	NS732600
Operations
Station code	BLH
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	0.428 million
2004/05	0.469 million
2005/06	0.515 million
2006/07	0.519 million
2007/08	0.534 million
2008/09	0.692 million
2009/10	0.581 million
2010/11	0.630 million
2011/12	0.673 million
- Interchange	45,256
2012/13	0.716 million
- Interchange	48,447
History
Original company	CR (Cleland and Midcalder Line)
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
1 May 1879	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bellshill from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Bellshill railway station is a railway station in the town of Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and served by Argyle Line and Shotts Line services. The station is adjacent to Bellshill Main Street, on Hamilton Road, and was opened by the Caledonian Railway as part of the Cleland and Midcalder Line on 1 May 1879. West of the station, the Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway crossed with a second station in the town to the north west - this ceased to carry passenger back in 1951.

The line through the station was electrified as part of the 1974 West Coast Main Line project.

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Bellshill station in 1961

Although it is situated east of the Shotts Line's junction with the WCML south of Uddingston, electric trains can reach Motherwell using a chord line to the route from Coatbridge Central and Mossend which passes beneath the Shotts route east of the station (these lines being wired to allow electric access to the yard at Mossend and to allow freight trains to avoid the busy Motherwell area).

Services

The service Mondays-Saturdays is:

• 2tph to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts
• 2tph to Lanark via Motherwell
• 4tph to Glasgow Central High Level

There are additional peak trains to Anderston and Carstairs, and infrequent services on the North Berwick line.

On a Sunday, the pattern is as follows:

• 1tph to Lanark via Motherwell
• 1tph to Motherwell
• 1tp2h to Edinburgh Waverley
• 2tph to Glasgow Central

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Motherwell		Abellio ScotRail Argyle Line		Uddingston
Holytown		Abellio ScotRail Shotts Line		Uddingston
	Historical railways
Holytown Line and station open		Caledonian Railway Cleland and Midcalder Line		Uddingston Line and station open

Bibliography

• RAILSCOT on Cleland and Midcalder Line
• Bellshill railway station on historic OS Map