* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kirknewton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Kirknewton railway station is a railway station serving Kirknewton in West Lothian, Scotland, previously called Midcalder. 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 First ScotRail.

The station has a notoriously dangerous level crossing at the western end of the platform.^{[citation needed]}

1 Services
- 1.1 2006/07
- 1.2 From November 2007
2 References

[edit] Services

[edit] 2006/07

Served Monday to Saturday, by an hourly First ScotRail service between Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell. There is a limited Sunday service at this station to Edinburgh and West Calder. Services calling at this station are normally the Class 156 "Super Sprinter".

At this time passing trains included a colourful variety of Virgin Trains Class 220 "Voyager", Class 221 "Super Voyager", Class 390 "Pendolino" and GNER InterCity 225 can also be seen.

[edit] From November 2007

It is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by an hourly First ScotRail service between Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. There is a limited Sunday service at this station to Edinburgh and West Calder. There are also limited service between North Berwick and Glasgow Central. The staple passenger traction calling at this station is the Class 156 "Super Sprinter" although Class 158 "Express Sprinter" are sometimes seen and electric traction can be seen on the North Berwick services.

As this station is on the WCML (Edinburgh Branch) a colourful variety of CrossCountry Class 220 "Voyager", Virgin Trains Class 221 "Super Voyager", Virgin Trains Class 390 "Pendolino" and National Express East Coast InterCity 225 (from 9 December 2007) can also be seen.

Preceding station		Following station
Curriehill	First ScotRail Shotts Line	Livingston South
Curriehill	First ScotRail North Berwick Line	Carstairs
Historical Railways
Connection at Midcalder Junction	Caledonian Railway Cleland and Midcalder Line	Newpark
Ravelrig	Caledonian Railway Main Line	Harburn

[edit] References

Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.

Jowett, Alan (1989). Jowett's railway atlas of Great Britain and Ireland : from pre-grouping to the present day, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.