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stazione di Slateford

Edinburgh, Italy

stazione di Slateford

Slateford railway station is a railway station serving Slateford in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV. It is managed by ScotRail. It is c

urrently served, Monday to Saturday, by one ScotRail service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley with a two-hourly Sunday service. There are also additional services, one from Motherwell to Edinburgh in the early morning with a late evening return and a morning peak service from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh via Carstairs, returning in the evening peak. The staple passenger traction calling at this station is the Class 385 Scotrail “Express” Electric Multiple Unit, however it is also served by Class 380 “Desiro” EMUs. As this station lies on the spur of the West Coast Main Line from Carstairs to Edinburgh, a variety of CrossCountry Class 220 Voyager, Avanti West Coast Class 221 Super Voyager, Class 390 Pendolino and London North Eastern Railway Class 801s are in use, and also Class 397 on TransPennine Express services. The line was and still is heavily used by freight, including...

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