Shieldmuir train station
You can reach 29 stations directly from Shieldmuir on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Carluke, with 75 trains a day.
Direct trains from Shieldmuir
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carluke | 75 | 73 | 28 |
| Motherwell | 75 | 73 | 28 |
| Wishaw | 75 | 71 | 28 |
| Glasgow Central | 71 | 69 | 27 |
| Lanark | 71 | 72 | 28 |
| Cambuslang | 69 | 69 | 27 |
| Uddingston | 69 | 69 | 27 |
| Bellshill | 63 | 65 | 27 |
| Carstairs | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Argyle Street | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Anderston | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bridgeton | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bargeddie | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Baillieston | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Carmyle | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Clydebank | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dalmarnock | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dalmuir | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Exhibition Centre | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Garscadden | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hyndland | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Jordanhill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kirkwood | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mount Vernon | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Partick (Rail) | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutherglen | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Scotstounhill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Whifflet | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Yoker | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Shieldmuir
Shieldmuir is on the West Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Shieldmuir station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Shieldmuir station on 113 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 22 paths on the Wednesday, 8 paths on the Saturday and 8 paths on the Sunday. 23 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Shieldmuir station is
121,668 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,663rd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Shieldmuir and Glasgow Central than any other pair: 67,496 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: 8 stations instead of 29, a drop of about 72%. Saturday runs to 9.
Nearest other stations
- Wishaw 1.3 miles
- Airbles 1.5 miles
- Motherwell 1.7 miles
- Chatelherault 2.0 miles
- Carfin 2.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Shieldmuir, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Flemington · 0.6 miles
- Wishaw South · 1.3 miles
- Larkhall East · 2.2 miles
- Cleland (Old) · 2.2 miles
- Overtown · 2.5 miles
- Cambusnethan · 2.5 miles
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Facilities at Shieldmuir station
Shieldmuir is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
Waiting room
Cycle parking: 6 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 12 August 2026.
Getting to Shieldmuir station
Shieldmuir station is in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
The nearest motorway junction is M74 J7 (Larkhall Interchange), 1.6 miles south-west.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Shieldmuir 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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