Falkirk High railway station

Falkirk High Scottish Gaelic: Bràighe na h-Eaglaise Brice[1]
General information
Location	Falkirk, Falkirk Scotland
Coordinates	55°59′30″N 3°47′33″W / 55.9917°N 3.7924°W / 55.9917; -3.7924
Grid reference	NS882791
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	FKK
History
Original company	Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
21 February 1842	Opened as Falkirk[2]
1 February 1903	Renamed as Falkirk High[2][3]
Passengers
2018/19	0.910 million
Interchange	3,476
2019/20	0.896 million
Interchange	3,777
2020/21	0.117 million
Interchange	534
2021/22	0.432 million
Interchange	3,034
2022/23	0.617 million
Interchange	2,189
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Falkirk High railway station is one of two railway stations serving the town of Falkirk in Scotland. It is on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line and situated on the southern edge of the town, close to the Union Canal.

Falkirk is also served by the railway station at Falkirk Grahamston.

The station was opened as Falkirk with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on 21 February 1842.^[2] Edinburgh-bound services initially terminated at Haymarket, but were subsequently extended to the North British Railway's station at Edinburgh Waverley in 1846.^[4] The NBR took over operations in 1865 when it absorbed the E&GR, with the London and North Eastern Railway succeeding it at the 1923 Grouping.

In 1903, the station was renamed as Falkirk High recognising it being one of several stations in the town (the others being Falkirk Grahamston and Camelon on the Polmont to Larbert/Greenhill loop line) and its location above the town.^[3]

Falkirk High station is open (and staffed) seven days per week; at off-peak times eight trains per hour stop, four for Glasgow via Croy and four for Edinburgh via Polmont and Linlithgow. This drops to every half-hour each way in the evenings.

Journey times to Edinburgh vary from 27 minutes to 38 minutes depending on stopping stations and time of day; to Glasgow the journey time is between 18 and 26 minutes.

On Sundays there is a half-hourly service in each direction.^[5]

Train services are provided by ScotRail.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Polmont		ScotRail Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line		Croy
	Historical railways
Polmont Line and station open		North British Railway Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway		Bonnybridge High Line open, station closed

Falkirk High station is home to the metal sculpture of "Antonine the Legendary Engine" by George Wyllie. This sculpture is of sufficient importance to be listed and protected by the Railway Heritage Committee.^[6]

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• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.