Whifflet railway station
Whifflet 
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Whifflet railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | Coatbridge |
| Local authority | North Lanarkshire |
| Coordinates | 55°51′14″N 4°01′08″W / 55.8539°N 4.0188°WCoordinates: 55°51′14″N 4°01′08″W / 55.8539°N 4.0188°W |
| Operations | |
| Station code | WFF |
| 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 |
 0.255 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.257 million |
| 2013/14 |
 0.233 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.234 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.247 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | SPT |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 21 December 1992 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Whifflet from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Whifflet railway station is located in the Whifflet area of Coatbridge. Train services are provided by Abellio ScotRail. Until December 2014 it was the terminal station on the Whifflet Line, since when it is served by Argyle Line services.
To the east of the station is the link line from the North Clyde Line at Sunnyside Junction. There are no platforms on this line, but it is used by empty EMUs laying over between trips from Glasgow.
The station here is a relatively recent addition to the Glasgow suburban network, opening on 21 December 1992 and initially served by the Argyle Line branch between Motherwell and Coatbridge Central. It subsequently became the terminus for the former Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway route from Glasgow Central when that route reopened to passenger traffic on 4 October 1993. The station on this site is completely new - services originally operated from Glasgow Central High Level to Coatbridge Central over the R&CR route up until their demise (due to the Beeching Axe) on 7 November 1966.
Whifflet had no fewer than three other stations serving it in the past, along with a complex network of routes operated by several different pre-grouping companies (including the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway and Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway). All of them - the ex-M&KR/NBR depot on the line from Sunnyside Junction (which was sited a short distance east of the current station) and the Caledonian Railway's bi-level Whifflet Upper and Lower stations (located north of Whifflet North Junction where the two lines crossed) had been shut down by the mid-1960s - the North British station was closed in November 1962, whilst both CR ones closed on 5 October 1964 (though the Upper station had been a terminus since 1943).
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