Holytown railway station
Holytown 
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| Location | |
| Place | New Stevenston |
| Local authority | North Lanarkshire |
| Coordinates | 55°48′45″N 3°58′25″W / 55.8126°N 3.9736°WCoordinates: 55°48′45″N 3°58′25″W / 55.8126°N 3.9736°W |
| Grid reference | NS764594 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | HLY |
| 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 |
 0.113 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.128 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.140 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.141 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.142 million |
| History | |
| 1 June 1880 | Opened as Carfin |
| 1 January 1882 | Renamed Carfin Junction |
| 1 June 1882 | Renamed Holytown Junction |
| 1 October 1901 | Renamed Holytown |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Holytown from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Holytown railway station is a railway station serving both Holytown and New Stevenston in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 13 miles (21 km) south east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley and is also on the Argyle Line. It was opened in 1880 (as 'Carfin') at the same time as the Wishaw Deviation Line from Law Junction, though the line on which it actually stands (the Wishaw and Coltness Railway) is considerably older.
Despite its name, the station is some 550 yards (500 m) from the edge of Holytown; instead it is in New Stevenston.
The station was opened to assist the coal mining industry; the mines are now long gone.
Around 2003, some services to Lanark on the Argyle Line began running via Holytown (by means of the Mossend South to East curve) then down to Wishaw, creating two routes (one via Holytown and the other via the already existing Shieldmuir). This created a twice-hourly service at Holytown to/from Glasgow and a regular link to/from Motherwell.
Monday to Saturdays on the Shotts Line there is an hourly service westbound to Glasgow via Uddingston and eastbound to Edinburgh. Sunday services only run from Glasgow Central via Whifflet to Shotts for the month prior to Christmas.
However, from December 2012 a new two hourly service has operated between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh.
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