Livingston South railway station is one of two railway stations serving the town of Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 14 miles (23 km) west of Edinburgh Waverley on the way to Glasgow Central. It is managed by ScotRail, who provide all train services.
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.jpg) Livingston South in 2019, following rebuilding and electrification works | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Livingston, West Lothian Scotland | ||||
| Coordinates | 55°52′18″N 3°30′05″W / 55.8716°N 3.5015°W | ||||
| Grid reference | NT061653 | ||||
| Managed by | ScotRail | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | LVG | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | BR Scottish Region | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 6 October 1984 | Opened[2] | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  0.296 million | ||||
| 2019/20 |  0.327 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 45,760 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 0.152 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.206 million | ||||
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The town of Livingston also has another railway station, Livingston North, on the North Clyde Line.
History
editThe station was opened by British Rail on 6 October 1984.[2] The station has two platforms, connected by a subway, which was originally a cattle creep under the railway embankment at this point. The platforms were of timber construction.
In April 2018 the station underwent a £3.5 million transformation to upgrade it as part of a project to electrify the Edinburgh Waverley-Glasgow Central line.[3]
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Kirknewton or Haymarket | ScotRail Shotts Line |
West Calder | ||
Services
editIn 2010 it was served, Monday to Saturday, by one service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell and one starts from there. An additional hourly 'semi fast' service also now (May 2016) calls, giving the station a frequency of two trains per hour between Edinburgh and Glasgow. This latter service only calls at Haymarket en route to Edinburgh and at West Calder, Shotts & Bellshill when heading to Glasgow.
There is a limited Sunday service at this station to Edinburgh and Glasgow (six trains each way per day).[4]
The staple passenger traction on services using this station is the Class 385 EMU.
References
editNotes
edit- ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
- ^ a b Butt (1995), page 145
- ^ "Shotts line electrification completed on time and on budget". Network Rail. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ^ Table 224 National Rail timetable, May 2016
Sources
edit- Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
- Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.