Carstairs railway station

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Carstairs Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Tarrais[1]
North end (Glasgow end) of the station in May 2006
General information
Location	Carstairs, South Lanarkshire Scotland
Coordinates	55°41′29″N 3°40′09″W / 55.6913°N 3.6692°W / 55.6913; -3.6692
Grid reference	NS952454
Owned by	Network Rail
Managed by	ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CRS
History
Original company	Caledonian Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
15 February 1848	Station opened
Passengers
2018/19	62,376
Interchange	14,255
2019/20	60,948
Interchange	6,107
2020/21	4,138
Interchange	873
2021/22	6,986
Interchange	4,804
2022/23	13,506
Interchange	7,067
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Carstairs railway station serves the village of Carstairs in South Lanarkshire, Scotland and is a major junction station on the West Coast Main Line (WCML), situated close to the point at which the lines from London Euston and Edinburgh to Glasgow Central merge. Constructed originally by the Caledonian Railway, the station is managed today by ScotRail who also operate most services which serve the station; it is also served by one TransPennine Express service per day between Manchester Airport and Glasgow Central and one Caledonian Sleeper service each way per day between Glasgow Central and London Euston.^[2] All other services by TransPennine Express and services operated by Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry and London North Eastern Railway pass the station, but do not stop.