Breich railway station
Breich 
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| Location | |
| Place | Breich |
| Local authority | West Lothian |
| Coordinates | 55°49′39″N 3°40′03″W / 55.8275°N 3.6675°WCoordinates: 55°49′39″N 3°40′03″W / 55.8275°N 3.6675°W |
| Grid reference | NS956606 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BRC |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 90 |
| 2012/13 |
102 |
| 2013/14 |
 64 |
| 2014/15 |
92 |
| 2015/16 |
138 |
| History | |
| 9 July 1869 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Breich from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Breich railway station is a rural railway station serving the village of Breich in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 21 miles (34 km) west of Edinburgh Waverley towards Glasgow Central. It is currently the sixth least used station in the UK and the second least used in Scotland, after Barry Links.
The station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on their Cleland and Midcalder Line on 9 July 1869. Breich is named after the nearby Breich Water. The station pre-dates the present day (2015) village of Breich and OS maps show that it has never possessed freight facilities such as loading docks and sidings, etc.
The area although now very rural was once highly industrialised with several collieries, lime works, iron workings, etc. nearby, together with the Levenseat Branch of the North British Railway and the originally 4ft 6in Scotch gauge Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness line with its old terminus station of Longridge opened in 1845 and closed in 1848.
A ticket office and waiting room was still present in 1962 as shown by the photograph of that date, together with a linesman's brick hut building, both on the Glasgow bound platform.
The final section of the platforms running towards Edinburgh are slightly higher, have larger edging stones and a different construction suggesting that they were built at a different date than the rest of the platforms.
The station gardens have an unusual diversity of planted shrubs and trees.
Mondays to Saturdays saw one train to Edinburgh and two towards Glasgow Central with no Sunday service.
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