Holytown train station
You can reach 32 stations directly from Holytown on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bellshill, with 42 trains a day.
Holytown is the nearest station for postcodes in ML1. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Holytown
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellshill | 42 | 41 | 12 |
| Edinburgh Waverley | 42 | 42 | 12 |
| Glasgow Central | 42 | 41 | 12 |
| Haymarket | 42 | 42 | 12 |
| Livingston South | 42 | 42 | 12 |
| Shotts | 42 | 42 | 12 |
| West Calder | 42 | 42 | 12 |
| Cleland | 40 | 40 | 12 |
| Carfin | 40 | 40 | 12 |
| Hartwood | 40 | 40 | 12 |
| Uddingston | 40 | 40 | 12 |
| Addiewell | 39 | 40 | 12 |
| Fauldhouse | 39 | 40 | 12 |
| Curriehill | 38 | 39 | 12 |
| Kirknewton | 38 | 39 | 12 |
| Kingsknowe | 37 | 38 | 12 |
| Slateford | 37 | 38 | 12 |
| Wester Hailes | 37 | 38 | 12 |
| Breich | 35 | 36 | 12 |
| Cambuslang | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Argyle Street | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Anderston | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bridgeton | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Carluke | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Carstairs | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Exhibition Centre | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Garscadden | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hyndland | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Motherwell | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Partick (Rail) | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutherglen | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Wishaw | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Holytown
Holytown is on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Holytown station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Holytown station on 327 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 58 paths on the Wednesday, 51 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 70 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 05:00 to 06:00 on the Saturday, with 8 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Holytown station is
165,274 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,502nd busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 2 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Holytown and Glasgow Central than any other pair: 109,310 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Sundays
Sunday is a different railway here: 19 stations instead of 32, a drop of about 41%. Saturday runs to 21.
Nearest other stations
- Carfin 0.8 miles
- Motherwell 1.6 miles
- Bellshill 2.0 miles
- Airbles 2.3 miles
- Cleland 2.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Holytown, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Mossend · 1.0 miles
- Mossend EuroTerminal · 1.4 miles
- Flemington · 2.1 miles
- Bellshill (NBR) · 2.3 miles
- Newhouse · 2.3 miles
- Chapelhall · 2.3 miles
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Facilities at Holytown station
Holytown is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Waiting room
Parking at Holytown station
- Station Car Park - unlined & unsurfaced 20 spaces
free
Cycle parking: 6 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Holytown station
Holytown station is in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
The nearest motorway junction is M8 J6A (Chapelhall), 1.7 miles north.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Holytown station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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