Lanark railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Lanark
code = LNK


caption = View from platform 2 at Lanark railway station, looking towards the ticket office.
manager = First ScotRail
locale = Lanark
borough = South Lanarkshire
usage0405 = 0.258
usage0506 = 0.279
usage0607 = 0.290
platforms = 2
start = January 1855

Lanark railway station is a railway station in Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is the southern terminus of the Argyle Line.

History

Lanark station opened in 1855, as the terminus of a short branch line off the Caledonian Railway's West Coast Main Line. The branch had a triangular junction with the main line, to allow trains from Lanark to head west towards Carluke or east to Carstairs. The eastern curve closed in the 1960s.

In 1864 a line south from Lanark to Douglas was opened, and in 1874 it was extended to Muirkirk in Ayrshire, where it formed an end-on junction with the Glasgow and South Western Railway. That line closed in 1964.

In 1979, the Lanark branch was included in the Argyle Line electrification project.

Current services

Monday to Saturday, the station is served by two First ScotRail trains an hour: one per hour to Dalmuir via Shieldmuir, Motherwell, Bellshill, Glasgow Central Low Level and Yoker; the other train is for Milngavie via Holytown, Motherwell, Airbles, Blantyre and Glasgow Central Low Level.

On a Sunday, the station is served by one First ScotRail service an hour to Milngavie via Bellshill and Glasgow Central.

There are no southbound or eastbound services from this station, as it only has a northbound chord connecting it to the West Coast Main Line (WCML) at Lanark Junction. There have been calls for the southbound chord to be reconnected, to allow direct services from Lanark to Edinburgh.Fact|date=October 2008

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