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Curriehill railway station

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Place
  
Currie

Station code
  
CUH

2011/12
  
52,900

Number of platforms
  
2

Grid reference
  
NT176682

Managed by
  
Abellio ScotRail

2012/13
  
63,912

Local authority
  
Edinburgh

Curriehill railway station

Address
  
Currie EH14 5QR, United Kingdom

Similar
  
South Gyle railway station, Edinburgh Park railway st, Dalmeny railway station, Inverkeithing railway station, Holyrood - Edinburgh

Curriehill railway station 9th march 2013


Curriehill railway station is located in Currie, a southwestern suburb of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, not far from the main campus of Heriot-Watt University. It lies on the Shotts Line, which runs from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley by way of Shotts.

Contents

The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and is equipped with CCTV. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail.

History

Curriehill is a reopened station. The original Curriehill (called "Currie") opened on 15 February 1848, and was closed by British Railways on 31 March 1951. The present station (which occupies the site of the old station) opened on 5 October 1987.

Services

Curriehill is currently served on Mondays to Saturdays by an approximately hourly Abellio ScotRail service in each direction, to Edinburgh and Glasgow Central. There is one train per day to North Berwick and one to Ayr via Carstairs. Two trains per day run to Motherwell (one in the evening peak running via Shotts and one late night service via Carstairs), whilst one starts back from there. On Sundays the service is more limited, with two-hourly departures each way after midday.

The staple passenger traction calling at this station is the Class 156 "Super Sprinter", though Class 380 Desiro EMUs are used on the Ayr and North Berwick trains.

References

Curriehill railway station Wikipedia