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Owner | Network Rail | ||
Locale | Glasgow South Lanarkshire North Lanarkshire West Lothian Edinburgh Scotland | ||
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System | National Rail | ||
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Rolling stock | Class 158; Class 385 | ||
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Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | ||
Electrification | 25 kV 50 Hz AC OHLE | ||
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The Shotts Line is a suburban railway line in Scotland linking Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. It is one of the four rail links between the two cities.
Between Glasgow Central and Uddingston, the line is shared with the West Coast Main Line (WCML), before branching off towards Bellshill, rejoining the Edinburgh branch of the WCML at Midcalder Junction. The line's electrification was completed in early April 2019.
Glasgow to Edinburgh services
The Shotts line does not carry the principal service between the cities, with the journey taking around twice as long as the fast and frequent Glasgow Queen Street-Edinburgh service via Falkirk, which is the premier commuter link between the two cities.
History of route
The majority of the route follows ex-Caledonian Railway metals, with the North British Railway at the Edinburgh end.
- Glasgow Central Lines (CR)
- Polloc and Govan Railway between Eglinton Street Tunnels and Rutherglen (CR)
- Clydesdale Junction Railway between Rutherglen and Uddingston (CR)
- Cleland and Midcalder Line between Uddingston and Kirknewton (CR)
- Caledonian Railway Main Line between Kirknewton and Haymarket
- Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway between Haymarket and Edinburgh Waverley (NBR)
The line was threatened with closure in the Beeching Report of 1963, but was reprieved.[1] Services were diverted from their original terminus at Edinburgh Princes Street to Haymarket and Edinburgh Waverley when Princes Street closed in September 1965.
The route from Glasgow to Shotts was part of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network until it was taken over by First ScotRail.
Transport studies
In 2002, the Scottish Association Public Transport (SAPT) published a report suggesting that electrification of the Shotts Line would open up the Glasgow suburban electric network to Edinburgh and beyond, principally linking the capital to the Glasgow Airport Rail Link (now cancelled). This has been proposed as an alternative to the Crossrail Glasgow scheme, since it would not depend on the heavily used North Clyde Line, and would also provide a more direct electric link between Edinburgh and Glasgow without using the longer route via the WCML through Carstairs Junction.
Stations
The Shotts line serves the following stations:
- Glasgow Central
- connections for south-west Scotland, including Ayr, Greenock and Dumfries as well as West Coast Main Line services
- Cambuslang
- only at peak times
- Uddingston
- Bellshill
- connections to Motherwell and Lanark.
- Holytown
- Carfin
- Cleland
- Hartwood
- Shotts
- Fauldhouse
- Breich
- Addiewell
- West Calder
- Livingston South
- Kirknewton
- limited connections to Carstairs
- Curriehill
- Wester Hailes
- Kingsknowe
- Slateford
- Haymarket
- Edinburgh Waverley
- connections to north-eastern and central Scotland, including Dundee, Stirling and Inverness as well as East Coast Main Line services
Electrification
Network Rail completed an electrification project to electrify the entire line.[2] Prior to the completion of the electrification project, parts of the route were already electrified using the 25 kV overhead system. These were:-
The line follows the British Rail electrified West Coast Main Line as far as Uddingston Junction where it branches off to the east. Until Holytown Junction the line used by Argyle Line services. From Holytown the line continues through open countryside past Shotts and joins the Edinburgh Branch of the Caledonian Railway (part of the WCML) at Kirknewton. The central section between Holytown and Midcalder Junction was electrified by April 2019.[3][4][2]
Train services
Prior to December 2009
A Monday to Saturday hourly service was operated on the line, calling at all stops between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley. The exceptions to this rule were: Breich which was a request stop at peak hours only, the two trains a day in either direction that travelled via Carstairs and the single afternoon service from Edinburgh via Shotts that terminated at Motherwell.
On Sundays only, a two hourly service was provided between Edinburgh and West Calder. There were no services between Addiewell and Bellshill on a Sunday.
Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Shotts_Line
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