Merryton Railway Station
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Merryton railway station is a railway station in
Larkhall Larkhall (, ) is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, around southeast of Glasgow. It is twinned with Seclin in northern France. Larkhall sits on high ground between the River Clyde to the East and the Avon Water to the West. Larkhall ...
, Scotland. The station is managed by
ScotRail ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail (), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government. It has been operating the ScotRail franchise as an operator of las ...
and lies on the
Argyle Line The Argyle Line is a suburban railway located in West Central Scotland. The line serves the commercial and shopping districts of Glasgow's central area, and connects towns from West Dunbartonshire to South Lanarkshire. Named for Glasgow's Arg ...
. The station was officially opened on 9 December 2005, as part of the Larkhall branch re-opened at the same time. The station is located on the CR Mid Lanark Lines just south of the site of the previous ''Merryton Junction'' where the
Caledonian Railway The Caledonian Railway (CR) was one of the two biggest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping. It was formed in 1845 with the objective of forming a link between English railways and Glasgow. It progressively ex ...
Coalburn Branch diverged from the CR Mid Lanark Lines.


Facilities

The station has a car park but is not permanently staffed.


Services

From the opening of the Larkhall Branch in December 2005, a service has operated on Monday to Saturdays to via northbound and to southbound every 30 minutes. In the May 2016 timetable, this now runs to in the northbound direction but still originates from Dalmuir going south. In December 2007 an hourly service (in each direction) commenced on Sundays. This runs to Larkhall and to via .


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RAILSCOT on Coalburn Branch

RAILSCOT on Merryton Junction

New Link for Larkhall opens - BBC News Scotland website
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