Cleland railway station

Cleland
Location
Place	Cleland
Local authority	North Lanarkshire
Coordinates	55°48′18″N 3°54′36″W / 55.805°N 3.910°W / 55.805; -3.910Coordinates: 55°48′18″N 3°54′36″W / 55.805°N 3.910°W / 55.805; -3.910
Operations
Station code	CEA
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	43,979
2004/05 *	48,542
2005/06 *	53,253
2006/07 *	59,981
2007/08 *	66,552
2008/09 *	75,070
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
9 July 1869[1]	Opened as Bellside
1 October 1879[1]	Renamed Omoa
1 October 1941[2]	Renamed Cleland
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cleland from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Cleland railway station is a railway station serving the village of Cleland, near Motherwell in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Built on the Cleland and Midcalder Line it was originally named 'Omoa', after the nearby ironworks, until Cleland (Old) on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway closed in 1930.

It is located on the Shotts Line, 25 km (15¾ miles) east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV. It is managed by First ScotRail.

Services

It is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one First ScotRail service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. On Sundays, there is normally no service. However, in the four weeks leading up to Christmas, an hourly service to Glasgow Central from Shotts via Whifflet is laid on for shoppers.^[3]

Cleland is not included in the timetable for a new express passenger service along this line between Glasgow and Edinburgh.^[4]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hartwood		First ScotRail Shotts Line		Carfin
	Historical railways
Hartwood		Caledonian Railway  Cleland and Midcalder Line		Carfin

Traction

The staple passenger traction on this line is the Class 156 and Class 158, though Class 170 have been used in times of vehicle breakdown and shortages as well as for driver training.

Engineering works on other routes between Glasgow and Edinburgh may result in other diesel hauled passenger traction being seen, but these almost never call at this station.

Regular containerload and wagonload freight traffic also traverses the line regularly.^{[citation needed]}

References

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Butt 1995, p. 32.
2. ^ Butt 1995, p. 178.
3. ^ http://www.scotrail.co.uk/christmas/pdf/sunday_services.pdf
4. ^ http://www.scotrail.co.uk/sites/files/Ed%20Sub.web.pdf

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.