Camelon railway station

Camelon
265px Camelon railway station, looking east from the footbridge steps
Location
Place	Camelon
Local authority	Falkirk
Coordinates
Grid reference	NS867807
Operations
Station code	CMO
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	83,000
2005/06	89,975
2006/07	90,457
2007/08	96,584
2008/09	99,256
2009/10	92,058
2010/11	98,606
2011/12	0.104 million
2012/13	0.111 million
History
Original company	Railtrack
4 October 1994	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Camelon from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Camelon railway station is a railway station serving the suburb of Camelon in Falkirk, Scotland. It is located on the Edinburgh-Dunblane and Cumbernauld Lines. Train services are provided by Abellio ScotRail. The present station was opened in 1994.

History

The original station at Camelon, opened in 1850 and closed on 4 September 1967, was located about 250 yds east of the present station. It was called Camelon from its opening until 1903 when it was renamed Falkirk (Camelon) until its closure. The old station was a simple island platform with a ticket office and waiting room; access was from under the station via a set of stairs that led from a roadbridge.

The modern station has all the trappings of a 21st-century station, with both platforms accessible by wheelchair users, extensive use of CCTV and help points. There is free parking owned by the local authority adjacent to the south platform. This serves the nearby leisure facilities.

Services

From Camelon, direct train services run to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dunblane, with a change required at Stirling for stations to Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness, change at Glasgow or Edinburgh for trains to the south of Scotland and to England.

Trains on the Edinburgh - Dunblane route run every half hour and those to Cumbernauld & Glasgow run hourly. There are no Glasgow trains on Sundays, whilst the Edinburgh to Dunblane route operates hourly each way.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Falkirk Grahamston		Abellio ScotRail Edinburgh–Dunblane Line		Larbert
Cumbernauld		Abellio ScotRail Cumbernauld Line		Falkirk Grahamston