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South Lanarkshire

Carstairs railway station

Carstairs railway station serves the village of in , and is a major junction station on the West Coast Main Line, situated close to the point at which the lines from and to merge.
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Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Railway station
  • Description: railway station in Carstairs, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Carstairs Station” and “CRS”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include State Hospital and Carstairs House.

Hospital
Photo: Alan Stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a psychiatric hospital located close to the villages of and , in , Scotland. It provides care and treatment in conditions of high security for patients from Scotland and Northern Ireland. is situated 3,600 feet northeast of Carstairs railway station.

Building
Photo: Greg Morss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, also known as Monteith House, is a country house 1.5 kilometres south-west of , , Scotland. The house is protected as a category A listed building. is situated 1 mile southwest of Carstairs railway station.

is a freight handling facility near in Scotland. is situated 1½ miles west of Carstairs railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carstairs Junction and Carstairs.

Village
Photo: Alan Stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in . Taking its name from the village of and nearby railway junction, the village grew around the railway station which opened in 1848.

Photo: Adam Black GB, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in , one of string of villages north bank of the upper River Clyde. Junction grew up later when the railway arrived, while Carnwath is an old market town, population 1360.

Village
is a hamlet and civil parish in , Scotland, 7 miles east of . Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described in 1887 as "par. and vil, Lanarkshire, on river Clyde - par, 3900 ac, pop. is situated 1½ miles south of Carstairs railway station.

Carstairs railway station

Latitude
55.69137° or 55° 41′ 29″ north
Longitude
-3.66937° or 3° 40′ 10″ west
Elevation
659 feet (201 metres)
Operator
ScotRail
Network
National Rail
Abbreviation
“CRS”
Open location code
9C7RM8RJ+G7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3749263908
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
2653638
Wiki­data ID
Q657363
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Welsh—“Carstairs railway station” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “station Carstairs”
  • Dutch: “Station Carstairs”
  • French: “Carstairs”
  • French: “gare de Carstairs”
  • Japanese: “カーステーアーズ”
  • Japanese: “カーステアズ駅”
  • Polish: “Carstairs”
  • Welsh: “Carstairs Junction”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Carstairs railway station”. Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.