Croy railway station serves the village of Croy – as well as the nearby town of

Kilsyth Kilsyth (; ) is a town and civil parishes in Scotland, civil parish in North Lanarkshire, roughly halfway between Glasgow and Stirling in Scotland. The estimated population is 10,380. The town is famous for the Battle of Kilsyth and the religi ...

and parts of

Cumbernauld Cumbernauld (; ) is a large town in the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, most-populous locality in Scotl ...

– in

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, Scotland. It is located on the

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, northeast of . The station services include the Glasgow–Edinburgh mainline and between Glasgow Queen Street and

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. Train services are provided by

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Facilities

The

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was authorised by act of Parliament on 4 July 1838. It was opened to passenger traffic on 21 February 1842, between its Glasgow Queen Street railway station (sometimes referred to at first as Dundas Street) and ...

station building has been demolished and replaced with a modern, glass and steel building designed by IDP Architects—adopted from the designs at the . The station has

park-and-ride A park and ride, also known as incentive parking or a commuter lot, is a parking lot with public transport connections that allows commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system ( ...

facilities, with spaces for over 900 vehicles, including cycle parking and charging points for electrical vehicles. They have also placed bus connections from this station to Kilsyth and Cumbernauld. The lines through the station have been electrified as part of the

Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme The Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme or EGIP was an initiative funded by Transport Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government to increase capacity on the main railway line between Edinburgh and Glasgow, with new, longer electric trains ...

. The platform lengthening work has been carried out as part of this scheme. In November 2021, the installation of an accessible footbridge began. This enabled step-free access to both platforms. In October 2022, the project was completed and opened to the public for use.

Services

2011

From Monday to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service southbound to Glasgow Queen Street and northbound to

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. Moreover, the service runs every hour in each direction on evenings and Sundays. There is also a half-hourly service to Stirling Monday to Saturday, which continues alternately to Alloa or Dunblane. This provides a second half-hourly service to Glasgow calling at both Lenzie and Bishopbriggs, giving a combined four trains an hour to Glasgow off peak. On Sundays, an hourly service operates between Glasgow and Alloa.

2016

The service includes half-hourly express to Queen Street and Edinburgh on the E&G main line in the daytime, and hourly during evenings and Sundays. Half-hourly (local) service each way on the Croy Line to Queen Street and to Stirling, then alternating to either Dunblane or Alloa. Hourly to Queen Street and Alloa on Sundays.

Electrification

As part of the

, the line through the station has been electrified.

References

Sources

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