Curriehill railway station


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 to 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 opened on 15 February 1848, and was closed by British Railways on 31 March 1951. The present 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 Central. There is one train per day to and one to Ayr via. Two trains per day run to Motherwell, whilst one starts back from there. 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", though Class 380 Desiro EMUs are used on the Ayr and North Berwick trains.