Progress and Current Status
- The start of work was officially signalled with a sod cutting ceremony at Livingston North station in June 2007.
- Contracts worth £300m for design, installation and commissioning of signalling and telecommunications had been awarded by July 2008.
- Remodelling of Newbridge Junction and doubling of Bathgate branch was completed in October 2008.
- Blackridge railway station has now been included as one of the stations to be opened on the line.
- Drumgelloch (1989) officially closed after the last train left at 23:08 for Helensburgh Central on 8 May 2010. Drumgelloch opened in December 2010 located 550 metres to the east.
- On 27 August 2010 at Drumgelloch, an official ceremony took place to lay the last piece of track between Airdrie and Bathgate joining the two towns by rail for the first time since 1982.
- Work to install overhead line and signalling equipment for the line is now complete, and it was opened for operational use and driver training on 18 October 2010.
- Passenger services began on 12 December 2010, as an extension of the existing services to Airdrie on the North Clyde Line, incorporated into National Rail timetable 226. Services currently hourly (half hourly on weekends). Drumgelloch, Caldercruix and Armadale are initially served by bus substitution services open due to the inclement weather at the end of November 2010 delaying the completion of minor works (including surfacing of car parks).
- On 13 February 2011 Caldercruix opened.
- Armadale opened on 4 March, followed by Drumgelloch on 6 March, thus completing all station work. Effective 7 March, service between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley increased to two trains per hour on weekdays, Saturdays and Sunday afternoons.
- On Tuesday 8 March 2011, Scottish Transport Minister Keith Brown officially opened the Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link.
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