West Calder railway station
West Calder railway station is a railway station serving West Calder in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, west of on the way to . The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV. It is managed by ScotRail. In 2018, accessibility improvements at the station saw the installation of a new footbridge and lifts while the original cast iron footbridge dismantled and removed to the heritage Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway. Services. Since the December 2009 timetable change, the station is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one ScotRail all -stops service each hour between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley. There is also a semi-fast service between the two cities each hour which calls (this otherwise stops only at Haymarket, , and ). One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at and one starts back from there in the opposite direction. The timetable featured a limited Sunday service of one train every two hours from this station to Edinburgh until December 2012; at the timetable change that year a two-hourly Sunday service between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley was introduced which remains in operation as of May 2016. As of  April 2019, the passenger traction on this line is the Class 380 and Class 385 (previously Class 156 and Class 158). History. During the Midlothian Campaign of 1878–80 William Ewart Gladstone, leader of Britain's Liberal Party, visited West Calder to give a foreign policy speech. Again on 21 November he returned during the 1885 United Kingdom general election to give another speech.