Christmas travel plans rail smooth

Rutherglen and Cambuslang residents out celebrating or doing a spot of last-minute Christmas shopping can now check when they can get a train home on Christmas eve.

ScotRail has announced their timetable for the festive season, and travellers will need to be on the 9.25pm service from Glasgow Central on December 24 if they are to make it home to Rutherglen or Cambuslang in time for Christmas.

On Christmas Eve, the last service stopping at King’s Park, Croftfoot, Burnside, Kirkhill and Newton leaves Glasgow Central at 9.08pm.

For those wanting to spend their Christmas money or take advantage of the sale on Boxing Day, a limited service will run with services starting from 10am. No trains will leave from Cambuslang due to improvement works.

A half hourly service will run between Rutherglen and Milngavie and Rutherglen and Balloch.

Hourly services will also run between Glasgow Central and Lanark which will call at Newton and an hourly service to Larkhall and one to Motherwell that will call at the stations on the Newton line.

For people travelling into Glasgow to celebrate on Hogmanay, the last services into Glasgow depart from Newton at 9.39pm, Kirkhill at 9.42pm, Burnside at 9.45pm, Croftfoot at 9.47pm and King’s Park at 9.40pm, arriving into the city centre at 10.03pm. The last train from Cambuslang leaves at 9.35pm and a different service from Rutherglen sets off at 9.35pm as well. For those celebrating New Year at home, the last service to King’s Park, Croftfoot, Burnside, Kirkhill and Newton leaves Glasgow at 9.08pm and the train to Rutherglen and Cambuslang and Rutherglen leaves at 9.25pm.

There are no services on New Years Day, so the first train into Glasgow on January 2 from Newton is at 9.34am, stopping at Cambuslang at 9.37am, Rutherglen at 9.42am and Glasgow Central at 9.51am. The 9.49am service from Newton arrives at Burnside at 9.55am, Croftfoot at 9.57am, King’s Park at 9.59am and Glasgow Central at 10.13am.

Graham Heald, the ScotRail Alliance’s head of customer experience, said: “We will be working flat out to keep people moving during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

“There will be changes to train times, so we encourage our customers to plan their journeys now on our app or at scotrail.co.uk.”

We will work to keep people moving