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West Lothian West Lothian ( sco, Wast Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its shires of Scotland, historic counties. The county was called Linlithgowshire until 1925. The historic county was bounded geogra ...

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ScotRail ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail ( gd, Rèile na h-Alba), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government. It has been operating the ScotRail franchise a ...

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Livingston South railway station is one of two

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s serving

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. It is located on the

Shotts Line The Shotts Line is a suburban railway line linking and via in Scotland. It is one of the four rail links between the two cities. Between Glasgow Central and , the line is shared with the West Coast Main Line (WCML), before branching off tow ...

, west of on the way to . It is managed by

, who provide all train services. The town of Livingston also has another railway station, , on the

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History

The station was opened by

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

on 6 October 1984. The station has two platforms, connected by a subway, which was originally a

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under the railway embankment at this point. The platforms were of timber construction. In April 2018 the station underwent a £3.5 million transformation to upgrade it as part of a project to electrify the Edinburgh Waverley-Glasgow Central line.

Services

In 2010 it was served, Monday to Saturday, by one service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at and one starts from there. An additional hourly 'semi fast' service also now (May 2016) calls, giving the station a frequency of two trains per hour between Edinburgh and Glasgow. This latter service only calls at en route to Edinburgh and at , & when heading to Glasgow. There is a limited Sunday service at this station to Edinburgh and Glasgow (six trains each way per day). The staple passenger traction on services using this station is the

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