Coatdyke railway station

Coatdyke
Coatdyke railway station
Location
Place	Coatbridge
Local authority	North Lanarkshire
Coordinates	55°51′50″N 4°00′18″W / 55.864°N 4.005°W / 55.864; -4.005Coordinates: 55°51′50″N 4°00′18″W / 55.864°N 4.005°W / 55.864; -4.005
Operations
Station code	COA
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	0.182 million
2004/05 *	0.232 million
2005/06 *	0.256 million
2006/07 *	0.269 million
2007/08 *	0.291 million
2008/09 *	0.369 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
1 February 1871	Opened
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Coatdyke from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Coatdyke railway station entrance

Coatdyke railway station is a railway station situated in Quarry Street Coatbridge and 16 km (9.9 mi) east of Glasgow Queen Street. It is the closest station to Coatbridge College and Monklands Hospital.

History

The station was opened as part of the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway on 1 February 1871.^[1] The station now has no structures other than simple shelters. The ticket hall that was built when the Airdrie-Helensburgh line was electrified in 1960 was demolished in the early 1990s. Similar structures, built in the same style, still survive at Easterhouse and Airdrie stations.

Services

It serves eastern Coatbridge and western Airdrie, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line.

2008

From Coatdyke trains are every 15 minutes, Monday to Saturday daytimes and half-hourly evenings and Sundays towards Glasgow Queen Street and beyond (Balloch / Helensburgh Central) westbound and towards Airdrie eastbound.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Airdrie		First ScotRail North Clyde Line		Coatbridge Sunnyside
	Historical railways
Airdrie Line and Station open		North British Railway Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway		To Greenside Junction with Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Line open

References

Notes

1. ^ Butt (1995), p64

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. 
• RAILSCOT on Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway