Livingston South | |
Native Name: | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Baile Dhunlèibhe a Deas |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Livingston, West Lothian |
Country: | Scotland |
Coordinates: | 55.8716°N -3.5015°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | ScotRail |
Platforms: | 2 |
Code: | LVG |
Original: | BR Scottish Region |
Years: | 6 October 1984 |
Events: | Opened[1] |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Livingston South railway station is one of two railway stations serving Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 14miles west of on the way to . It is managed by ScotRail, who provide all train services.
The town of Livingston also has another railway station,, on the North Clyde Line.
The station was opened by British Rail on 6 October 1984. The station has two platforms, connected by a subway, which was originally a cattle creep under the railway embankment at this point. The platforms were of timber construction.
In April 2018 the station underwent a £3.5 million transformation to upgrade it as part of a project to electrify the Edinburgh Waverley-Glasgow Central line.[2]
In 2010 it was served, Monday to Saturday, by one service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at and one starts from there. An additional hourly 'semi fast' service also now (May 2016) calls, giving the station a frequency of two trains per hour between Edinburgh and Glasgow. This latter service only calls at en route to Edinburgh and at, & when heading to Glasgow.
There is a limited Sunday service at this station to Edinburgh and Glasgow (six trains each way per day).
The staple passenger traction on services using this station is the Class 385 EMU.