Trains to Bathgate - Station Details and further Information on Bathgate Train Services
Bathgate train station is a train station serving the town of Bathgate in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Edinburgh-Bathgate Line. The station is 18½ miles west of Edinburgh. The station was re-opened in 1986 to serve the town of Bathgate when the rail service from Edinburgh was re-introduced. Next to the station was Bathgate goods yard. The yard was used to store and unload freight trains carrying new cars. This yard was located to the south of the present station. The goods yard - now the Bathgate car terminal - was moved slightly east in 1996 as the original site of the yard was occupied by various retail outlets.
In 2005, the Scottish Executive declared that in line with plans to upgrade the unfinished part of the A8 to motorway standard, public transport links between Glasgow and Edinburgh must also improve. The closed section of line between Drumgelloch and Bathgate will be rebuilt as a double tracked electrified railway and has been termed the Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link.
This will result in the closure of this station to be replaced by a new station to the south east close to the former junction of the former Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway and Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway. It will connect with the North Clyde Line at Drumgelloch and open up a fourth rail link between Glasgow and Edinburgh. |