| Linlithgow | |||||||||
| Native Name: | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Iucha | ||||||||
| Symbol Location: | gb | ||||||||
| Symbol: | rail | ||||||||
| Borough: | Linlithgow, West Lothian | ||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 55.9764°N -3.5957°W | ||||||||
| Grid Name: | Grid reference | ||||||||
| Manager: | ScotRail | ||||||||
| Platforms: | 2 | ||||||||
| Code: | LIN | ||||||||
| Original: | Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway | ||||||||
| Pregroup: | North British Railway | ||||||||
| Postgroup: | London and North Eastern Railway | ||||||||
| Years: | 21 February 1842 | ||||||||
| Events: | Opened[1] | ||||||||
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | ||||||||
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Linlithgow railway station is a railway station serving the town of Linlithgow in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line, and is also served by ScotRail services from to .
Linlithgow station was opened by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on 21 February 1842.[1] It once featured an east-facing bay platform and a small goods yard, where the carpark is today. The station also had a railway hotel; The Star and Garter Hotel which was involved in a devastating fire in October 2010.[2]
Photographs of the station taken in 1845 are believed to be the oldest photographic images of a railway subject anywhere in the world.[3]
The building is Category C listed by Historic Scotland due to it being one of the only two surviving (with Croy) stations of the original Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
The station is served by trains on the main Edinburgh to Glasgow via Falkirk High main line, and the Edinburgh - Stirling - Dunblane route, with half-hourly calls each way on all routes daily (trains run hourly beyond Stirling to Dunblane on Sundays). A limited number of Sunday services start or terminate at Perth, running via Stirling and Gleneagles.
As part of the Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme, the line through the station has been electrified and the platforms extended.[4]