Holytown railway 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 |
| Uddingston | 41 | 40 | 12 |
| Cleland | 40 | 40 | 12 |
| Carfin | 40 | 40 | 12 |
| Hartwood | 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 | 36 | 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 |
How busy Holytown 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
Show closed stations on the map
More about this station on Wikipedia.