South Lanarkshire Railway Statistics

There are eighteen railway stations in South Lanarkshire.

Busiest Stations

The ten Busiest Stations

  1. 1 Rutherglen 812,876
  2. 2 Cambuslang 767,364
  3. 3 East Kilbride 756,936
  4. 4 Uddingston 701,672
  5. 5 Hamilton Central 648,720
  6. 6 Hamilton West 630,746
  7. 7 Newton 546,872
  8. 8 Hairmyres 518,614
  9. 9 Blantyre 377,508
  10. 10 Carluke 287,912

Least Used Stations

The five Least Used Stations

  1. 1 Thorntonhall 19,642
  2. 2 Carstairs 28,352
  3. 3 Kirkhill 65,226
  4. 4 Merryton 67,814
  5. 5 Chatelherault 73,122

Passenger Numbers

Passenger numbers for Chatelherault peaked during 2016-17 with 9,312,458 estimated passengers.

Usage dropped to 14% during the 2020-21 travel lockdowns and recovered to 0% by 2024.

Passenger Estimates for Chatelherault table
YearPassenger Numbers
1997-983,781,361
1998-994,471,741
1999-004,464,106
2000-014,346,639
2001-024,072,072
2002-033,977,507
2003-04 
2004-054,917,348
2005-065,623,820
2006-076,276,263
2007-086,650,724
2008-097,437,418
2009-107,405,198
2010-117,824,984
2011-128,345,550
2012-138,610,394
2013-148,773,562
2014-159,255,780
2015-169,255,780
2016-179,312,458
2017-189,172,962
2018-198,852,284
2019-208,758,746
2020-211,260,524
2021-224,084,656
2022-235,536,690
2023-24