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Cumbernauld railway station serves the town of Cumbernauld, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is located on the Cumbernauld Line, north east of Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) station and the Motherwell to Cumbernauld, 11¾ miles (19 km) north of . Trains serving the station are operated by ScotRail. The patronage at Cumbernauld station does not compare well with that of stations in similar towns such as , possibly related to the awkward position on the southeastern periphery of the town, well away from the town centre and the areas of north-western Cumbernauld (including Broadwood and Balloch) being closer to . ==History== The station was built by the Caledonian Railway and opened in August 1848 on their line from Gartsherrie (on the former Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway) to Greenhill on the Scottish Central Railway. The line gave the Caledonian access to central & north eastern Scotland from Glasgow and its main line from , but the station at Cumbernauld wasn't a commercial success as the village it served wasn't particularly large and so it closed after just one year of operation. It was eventually reopened in 1870 to be served by local passenger services from Glasgow Buchanan Street on the lines toward Falkirk & Stirling. However it wasn't until the after the decision to designate Cumbernauld as a new town in 1955 that the area's population began to expand significantly and usage of the station increased. This also ensured that the station avoided the Beeching Axe in the early 1960s, even though (as noted) it wasn't particularly well sited for the newly built residential developments. It did though lose its direct link with the city after the closure to passengers of the Buchanan Street terminus in November 1966.〔(Railscot - Buchanan Street Extension ) ''Railscot''; Retrieved 2014-01-28〕 The diversion of all main line expresses and the remaining local routes into Queen Street left the station without any trains serving it and so a replacement service had to be introduced. This consisted of a DMU shuttle along the old main line into Glasgow, which was still operational as far as the works at St Rollox; however just east of there they were re-routed onto the former Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway's Sighthill Branch to Cowlairs, which they used as far as . Trains terminated there, with passengers having to change onto North Clyde Line electric services over the former City of Glasgow Union Railway branch to and Queen Street Low Level. Regular local services southwards towards and had also ceased by this time, although a limited number of longer distance trains continued to call there - notably the London Euston to ''Clansman'' & ''Royal Highlander'' expresses from the early 1970s onwards. Through running to Queen Street High Level was eventually introduced in 1989 and since then several intermediate local stations along the line have reopened with backing from the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive. Services both northwards to (September 1999) and southwards to Motherwell (May 1996) have also been reintroduced, whilst the opening of the Cowlairs Chord in 1993 meant that services could now proceed directly to Queen Street without having to reverse alongside the depot at Eastfield as before. The lines to Glasgow & Coatbridge are currently being electrified (as part of the Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme), with electric operation beginning in the spring of 2014. This will see service frequencies on the Glasgow line increase to three per hour and through running on electric services to the west end of Glasgow via the North Clyde Line through Queen Street Low Level. The station building is also undergoing major refurbishment as part of this work, with a new modular structure due to open in July.〔("On the right tracks; work sees major change at Cumbernauld train station" ) Campbell, Scott ''Cumbernauld Media'' news article 19-05-2014; Retrieved 2014-05-19〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cumbernauld railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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