North Lanarkshire Railway Statistics

There are twenty-five railway stations in North Lanarkshire.

Busiest Stations

The ten Busiest Stations

  1. 1 Croy 1,060,672
  2. 2 Motherwell 699,220
  3. 3 Airdrie 632,798
  4. 4 Bellshill 511,244
  5. 5 Coatbridge Sunnyside 358,950
  6. 6 Wishaw 306,248
  7. 7 Blairhill 290,164
  8. 8 Drumgelloch 224,432
  9. 9 Stepps 193,228
  10. 10 Coatdyke 183,632

Least Used Stations

The ten Least Used Stations

  1. 1 Hartwood 11,802
  2. 2 Coatbridge Central 34,102
  3. 3 Caldercruix 67,194
  4. 4 Bargeddie 73,208
  5. 5 Greenfaulds 79,148
  6. 6 Airbles 79,500
  7. 7 Shieldmuir 84,282
  8. 8 Carfin 87,220
  9. 9 Cleland 88,768
  10. 10 Kirkwood 94,068

Passenger Numbers

Passenger numbers for North Lanarkshire peaked during 2017-18 with 9,550,856 estimated passengers.

Usage dropped to 13% during the 2020-21 travel lockdowns and recovered to 65% by 2023.

Passenger Estimates for North Lanarkshire table
YearPassenger Numbers
1997-984,023,732
1998-994,848,305
1999-005,037,909
2000-015,198,361
2001-025,035,341
2002-034,887,607
2003-04 
2004-055,846,839
2005-066,512,732
2006-076,928,093
2007-087,061,709
2008-097,825,364
2009-107,694,602
2010-118,017,228
2011-128,634,934
2012-138,775,632
2013-148,546,849
2014-159,022,034
2015-169,022,034
2016-179,473,150
2017-189,550,856
2018-199,275,328
2019-208,950,748
2020-211,191,492
2021-224,263,680
2022-235,836,976
2023-24