South Lanarkshire Railway Statistics

There are eighteen railway stations in South Lanarkshire.

Busiest Stations

The ten Busiest Stations

  1. 1 Cambuslang 629,278
  2. 2 East Kilbride 573,718
  3. 3 Uddingston 567,802
  4. 4 Rutherglen 549,318
  5. 5 Hamilton Central 526,570
  6. 6 Hamilton West 507,912
  7. 7 Newton 434,300
  8. 8 Hairmyres 409,734
  9. 9 Blantyre 312,248
  10. 10 Carluke 230,770

Least Used Stations

The five Least Used Stations

  1. 1 Carstairs 13,506
  2. 2 Thorntonhall 14,880
  3. 3 Merryton 56,250
  4. 4 Kirkhill 58,128
  5. 5 Chatelherault 61,912

Passenger Numbers

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

Usage dropped to 14% during the 2020-21 travel lockdowns and recovered to 63% by 2023.

Passenger Estimates for South Lanarkshire 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