Stirling railway station, Scotland

For other uses, see Stirling railway station (disambiguation).

Stirling
Location
Place	Stirling
Local authority	Stirling
Coordinates	56.1201°N 3.9351°W / 56.1201; -3.9351
Grid reference	NS797935
Operations
Station code	STG
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	7
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	1.711 million
2005/06	1.906 million
2006/07	1.920 million
2007/08	2.028 million
2008/09	2.132 million
2009/10	2.155 million
2010/11	2.267 million
2011/12	2.261 million
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Stirling from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Stirling railway station is a railway station located in Stirling, Scotland.

History

Dundee - Edinburgh express in 1957

Stirling was first connected to the Scottish Central Railway in 1848. Lines were operated by the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway and the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway. The current station buildings were opened in 1916 and have been refurbished several times, with minor layout changes, and most recently the installation of lifts to enable better access to the footbridge linking Platform 2 with Platforms 3 to 8.

An exhibition of the station over the last 100 years is planned for 2013.

Description

The station building was constructed in 1915 by James Miller, and is listed by Historic Scotland as a Category A listed building.

In 2008, the travel centre was refurbished to improve disabled access, including power-assisted entrance doors, a wheelchair-accessible counter, and improved customer information systems. In 2009, a shelter was erected on Platforms 9 and 10, and LED display boards replaced the CRT screens, including new displays for Platforms 9 and 10 and the bay Platforms 7 and 8. (Up to c.1988, a large flip-dot display was located above the main concourse; this was removed and the space filled in with a large "Welcome to Stirling Station" sign.) From December 2009, automated announcements were provided, replacing the manual announcements made from the supervisor's office on Platform 3. In 2013, a new public address system was installed.

The station houses a Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) from the British Transport Police. Currently two officers work from Stirling and cover Stirling, Alloa, Bridge of Allan, Camelon, Dunblane, Falkirk High, Falkirk Grahamston and Larbert.

The Stirling Area Command of the Forth Valley Division of Police Scotland cover the territorial area the Stirling NPT cover and will assist when the BTP officers are not available.

Services

Class 170s are used on many services at Stirling

From the station, trains operate north to Perth, Inverness and Aberdeen, south west to Glasgow, and east to Edinburgh. The service to Alloa and Dunfermine was stopped in 1968, but the reopening of the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine rail link partially restored that service with an hourly service from Glasgow to Alloa as an extension of the Croy Line services. This utilises the existing trains, which previously spent considerable time in one of the bay platforms at Stirling with engines idling, but now, in this otherwise wasted time, proceed to Alloa and return.

Most services are operated by First ScotRail although there is one train a day operated by East Coast to London Kings Cross and one in the opposite direction to Inverness. The station has nine platforms, though they are ordered 2 to 10. The site of Platform 1 is now occupied by a car park; the platforms were not renumbered. The bay platforms at the north end of the station (Platforms 4 and 5) survive but are not available to passenger trains. The bay platforms at the south end of the station (Platforms 7 and 8) are not normally used for weekday services, but the first services of the day use trains that have been stabled there overnight and they have been fitted with passenger information displays.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Falkirk Grahamston		East Coast East Coast Main Line		Gleneagles
Larbert		First ScotRail Edinburgh–Dunblane Line		Bridge of Allan
Preston (northbound) Falkirk Grahamston (southbound)		First ScotRail Highland Caledonian Sleeper		Dunblane
Larbert		First ScotRail Croy Line		Alloa
		First ScotRail Croy Line		Bridge of Allan
Glasgow Queen Street		First ScotRail Glasgow to Aberdeen Line Highland Main Line		Gleneagles
	Historical railways
Bannockburn Line open; Station closed		Caledonian Railway Scottish Central Railway		Bridge of Allan Line and Station open
Terminus		North British Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Railway		Causewayhead Line open; station closed
Terminus		North British Railway Forth and Clyde Junction Railway		Gargunnock Line and station closed

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• McCutcheon, Bob (1999). Stirling. Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-1853-X.