Carstairs railway station
Carstairs railway station serves the village of Carstairs, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is a major junction station on the West Coast Main Line, situated close to the point at which the lines from Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central to London Euston merge.- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Carstairs, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Carstairs Station” and “CRS”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include State Hospital and Carstairs Junction, War Memorial.
State Hospital
Hospital
The State Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located close to the villages of Carstairs and Carstairs Junction, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It provides care and treatment in conditions of high security for patients from Scotland and Northern Ireland. State Hospital is situated 3,600 feet northeast of Carstairs railway station.
Carstairs Junction, War Memorial
Memorial
Carstairs Junction, War Memorial is situated 1,800 feet southeast of Carstairs railway station.
Carstairs House
Building
Carstairs House, also known as Monteith House, is a country house 1.5 kilometres south-west of Carstairs, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The house is protected as a category A listed building. Carstairs House is situated 1 mile southwest of Carstairs railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carstairs Junction and Carstairs.
Carstairs Junction
Village
Carstairs Junction is a village in South Lanarkshire. Taking its name from the village of Carstairs and nearby railway junction, the village grew around the railway station which opened in 1848.
Carstairs
Carstairs is a village in Clydesdale, one of string of villages north bank of the upper River Clyde. Carstairs Junction grew up later when the railway arrived, while Carnwath is an old market town, population 1360.Pettinain
Village
Pettinain is a hamlet and civil parish in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 7 miles east of Lanark. Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Pettinain in 1887 as "par. and vil, Lanarkshire, on river Clyde - par, 3900 ac, pop. Pettinain is situated 1½ miles south of Carstairs railway station.
Carstairs railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.69137° or 55° 41′ 29″ north
Longitude
-3.66937° or 3° 40′ 10″ west
Elevation
659 feet (201 metres)
Wheelchair access
yes
Operator
Network
Abbreviation
“CRS”
Open location code
9C7RM8RJ+G7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=station
OpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Urdu: “کارسٹیرز ریلوے اسٹیشن”
- Welsh: “Carstairs Junction”
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