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Wester Hailes railway station

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Place
  
Station code
  
WTA

2011/12
  
29,822

Opened
  
May 1987

Number of platforms
  
2

Grid reference
  
NT198697

Managed by
  
Abellio ScotRail

2012/13
  
35,766

Local authority
  
Wester Hailes railway station

Address
  
Edinburgh EH14 3JH, United Kingdom

Similar
  
Kingsknowe railway station, Slateford railway station, Kirknewton railway station, Newcraighall railway station, Livingston South railway st

Wester Hailes railway station is a railway station opened in 1987 by British Rail serving Wester Hailes in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located on the Edinburgh branch of the West Coast Main Line, but is not served by inter-city services - these are provided via the Shotts Line of the SPT network. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail.

The staple passenger traction calling at this station is the Class 156 "Super Sprinter". As this station is part of the West Coast Main Line to Carstairs, which diverges at Mid Calder Junction, a colourful variety of CrossCountry Class 220 "Voyager", Virgin Trains West Coast Class 221 "Super Voyager", Class 390 "Pendolino" and Virgin Trains East Coast InterCity 225 can also be seen.

Service

It is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one Abellio ScotRail service every hour each way from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. One train a day to/from Edinburgh running via Shotts starts/terminates at Motherwell (plus a second late night train from Edinburgh via Carstairs that terminates there) and there is a single a.m peak-hour service to North Berwick that returns in the evening and runs to Ayr via Carstairs and Glasgow. The latter is operated by a Class 380 Desiro EMU.

On Sundays there is a two-hourly service to Edinburgh and Glasgow (six trains each way).

References

Wester Hailes railway station Wikipedia


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