Whifflet train station

You can reach 51 stations directly from Whifflet on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Argyle Street, with 97 trains a day.

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• 51 direct destinations
• 1,266th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free throughout
• 36 parking spaces

Direct trains from Whifflet

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

and 11 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Whifflet

Whifflet is on the Scottish Central Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Whifflet station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Whifflet station on 297 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 54 paths on the Wednesday, 39 paths on the Saturday and 8 paths on the Sunday. 58 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 13:00 to 14:00 on the Thursday, with 7 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 Whifflet station is

244,552 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,266th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 8,876 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Whifflet and Glasgow Central than any other pair: 79,284 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: 39 stations instead of 51, a drop of about 24%. Saturday runs to 47.

Nearest other stations

• Coatbridge Central 0.8 miles
• Coatdyke 0.9 miles
• Coatbridge Sunnyside 1.0 miles
• Kirkwood 1.2 miles
• Blairhill 1.3 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Whifflet Upper · 0.2 miles
• Carnbroe · 0.3 miles
• Calder · 0.5 miles
• Langloan · 0.9 miles
• Airdrie Leaend · 1.5 miles
• Commonhead · 1.8 miles

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Facilities at Whifflet station

Whifflet is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.

Waiting room

Parking at Whifflet station

• Station Car Park 36 spaces, 2 accessible
  free

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 12 August 2026.

Getting to Whifflet station

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

The nearest motorway junction is M8 J7A (Shawhead), 1.2 miles south.

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

Whifflet 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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