Carfin railway station
Carfin railway station is a railway station serving both Carfin and Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is southeast of Glasgow Central railway station on the Shotts Line between Glasgow and Edinburgh. It contains two platforms; one for trains in the direction of Glasgow, and the other for trains to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. Like the following stop on the Shotts Line, Holytown, the location of the station is ambiguous. It is located on the border between Carfin and Newarthill, for much of its recent history closer to a housing estate in the latter. It is now  bordered immediately on both sides by housing developments. Services. Trains from Carfin station provide an hourly service to the heart of Glasgow, stopping along the way at , and . is only served at peak times (and has been since December 213), whilst there is a single evening train to . In the opposite direction there is also an hourly service, calling at all stations except en route to Edinburgh. A 2 hourly service runs on Sundays.