Motherwell train station

Motherwell is a major interchange: 113 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Glasgow Central, with 237 trains a day.

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• 113 direct destinations
• 514th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout

Direct trains from Motherwell

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 73 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Motherwell

Motherwell is on the West Coast Main Line and the Hamilton Circle Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Motherwell station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Motherwell station on 118 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 23 paths on the Wednesday, 8 paths on the Saturday and 8 paths on the Sunday. 26 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 Tuesday, with 4 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Motherwell station is

1,049,030 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 514th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 100,406 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Motherwell and Glasgow Central than any other pair: 371,618 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.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Motherwell gains 13 destinations including Dunbar, Breich, Basingstoke, Southampton Central, Brockenhurst, Oxford.

Nearest other stations

• Airbles 0.7 miles
• Holytown 1.6 miles
• Shieldmuir 1.7 miles
• Carfin 1.9 miles
• Chatelherault 1.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Motherwell, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Flemington · 1.2 miles
• Mossend · 2.0 miles
• Bellshill (NBR) · 2.4 miles
• Mossend EuroTerminal · 2.4 miles
• Peacock Cross · 2.6 miles
• Bothwell · 3.0 miles

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Facilities at Motherwell station

Motherwell is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday: 06:15 to 00:00 · Sunday: 08:10 to 23:30

Toilets · Waiting room · WiFi

Parking at Motherwell station

• Station Car park

Cycle parking: 32 spaces (racks).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 7 September 2026.

Getting to Motherwell station

Motherwell station is in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.

The nearest motorway junction is M74 J6 (Hamilton Interchange), 1.4 miles south-west.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Motherwell 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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