Curriehill railway station

Curriehill
Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc Churraich
265px View from footbridge at Curriehill railway station, looking towards Edinburgh
Location
Place	Currie
Local authority	Edinburgh
Coordinates
Grid reference	NT176682
Operations
Station code	CUH
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	40,127
2005/06	43,593
2006/07	41,053
2007/08	43,321
2008/09	47,122
2009/10	46,888
2010/11	49,270
2011/12	52,900
2012/13	63,912
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Curriehill from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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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.

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. There is 1 train per day to North Berwick and 1 to Ayr, 1 train per day terminates at Motherwell and goes via Carstairs, 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".

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Wester Hailes		Abellio ScotRail Shotts Line		Kirknewton
		Abellio ScotRail North Berwick Line

External links

• Train times and station information for Curriehill railway station from National Rail