Wester Hailes railway station explained

Wester Hailes
Native Name:Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Hailes an Iar[1]
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Wester Hailes, Edinburgh
Country:Scotland
Coordinates:55.9144°N -3.2838°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:ScotRail
Platforms:2
Code:WTA
Opened:May 1987
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Wester Hailes railway station is a railway station opened in 1987 by British Rail serving Wester Hailes in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located on the Edinburgh branch of the West Coast Main Line, but is not served by inter-city services - these are provided via the Shotts Line of the SPT network. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV to deter crime and anti-social behaviour. It is managed by ScotRail.

The staple passenger traction calling at this station is the Class 156 "Super Sprinter". As this station is part of the West Coast Main Line to Carstairs, which diverges at Mid Calder Junction, a colourful variety of CrossCountry Class 220 "Voyager", Avanti West Coast Class 221 "Super Voyager", Class 390 "Pendolino" and London North Eastern Railway Class 801s can also be seen.

Service

It is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one ScotRail service every hour each way from to . One train a day to/from Edinburgh running via starts/terminates at (plus a second late night train from Edinburgh via Carstairs that terminates there) and there is a single a.m peak-hour service to that returns in the evening and runs to via and Glasgow. The latter is operated by a Class 380 Desiro EMU.

On Sundays there is a two-hourly service to Edinburgh and Glasgow (six trains each way).

References

  1. Book: Brailsford . Martyn . Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man . 6th . December 2017 . 1987 . Trackmaps . Frome . 978-0-9549866-9-8 . Gaelic/English Station Index .