Cumbernauld railway station
Cumbernauld 
|
|
|---|---|
Cumbernauld railway station (northbound platform)
|
|
| Location | |
| Place | Cumbernauld |
| Local authority | North Lanarkshire |
| Coordinates | 55°56′30″N 3°58′51″W / 55.9418°N 3.9807°WCoordinates: 55°56′30″N 3°58′51″W / 55.9418°N 3.9807°W |
| Grid reference | NS763738 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CUB |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
|
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.226 million |
| – Interchange |
2,443 |
| 2012/13 |
0.221 million |
| – Interchange |
 3,992 |
| 2013/14 |
0.196 million |
| – Interchange |
2,808 |
| 2014/15 |
0.209 million |
| – Interchange |
2,982 |
| 2015/16 |
0.206 million |
| – Interchange |
3,838 |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | SPT |
| Zone | S6/S8 |
| History | |
| Original company | Caledonian Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 7 August 1848 | Opened |
| August 1849 | Closed |
| April 1870 | Reopened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cumbernauld from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 |
|
Cumbernauld railway station serves the town of Cumbernauld, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is located on the Cumbernauld Line, 14 miles (23 km) north east of Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) station and the Motherwell to Cumbernauld, 11¾ miles (19 km) north of Motherwell. Trains serving the station are operated by ScotRail.
The patronage at Cumbernauld station does not compare well with that of stations in similar towns such as East Kilbride, possibly related to the awkward position on the southeastern periphery of the town, well away from the town centre and the areas of north-western Cumbernauld (including Broadwood and Balloch) being closer to Croy.
The station was built by the Caledonian Railway and opened in August 1848 on their line from Gartsherrie (on the former Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway) to Greenhill on the Scottish Central Railway. The line gave the Caledonian access to central & north eastern Scotland from Glasgow and its main line from Carlisle, but the station at Cumbernauld wasn't a commercial success as the village it served wasn't particularly large and so it closed after just one year of operation. It was eventually reopened in 1870 to be served by local passenger services from Glasgow Buchanan Street on the lines toward Falkirk & Stirling.
However it wasn't until the after the decision to designate Cumbernauld as a new town in 1955 that the area's population began to expand significantly and usage of the station increased. This also ensured that the station avoided the Beeching Axe in the early 1960s, even though (as noted) it wasn't particularly well sited for the newly built residential developments.
...
Wikipedia