| West Calder | |||||||||
| Native Name: | gd|Caladar an Iar | ||||||||
| Symbol Location: | gb | ||||||||
| Symbol: | rail | ||||||||
| Borough: | West Calder, West Lothian | ||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 55.8537°N -3.5671°W | ||||||||
| Grid Name: | Grid reference | ||||||||
| Manager: | ScotRail | ||||||||
| Platforms: | 2 | ||||||||
| Code: | WCL | ||||||||
| Years: | 9 July 1869 | ||||||||
| Events: | Opened | ||||||||
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | ||||||||
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West Calder railway station is a railway station serving the village of West Calder in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 28km (17miles) west of on the way to . The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV. It is managed by ScotRail.In 2018, accessibility improvements at the station saw the installation of a new footbridge and lifts while the original cast iron footbridge was dismantled and removed to the heritage Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway.[1] Pedestrian ingress onto and egress from either platform, without using stairs or lifts, is possible via tarmac ramp connecting to the pavement of a traffic bridge.
Since the December 2009 timetable change, the station is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one ScotRail all-stops service each hour between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley. There is also a semi-fast service between the two cities each hour which calls (this otherwise stops only at Haymarket,, and). One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at and one starts back from there in the opposite direction.
The timetable featured a limited Sunday service of one train every two hours from this station to Edinburgh until December 2012; at the timetable change that year a two-hourly Sunday service between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley was introduced which remains in operation as of May 2016.[2]
As of April 2019, the passenger traction on this line is the Class 380 and Class 385 (previously Class 156 and Class 158).