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With work to install overhead line and signalling equipment for the line complete, 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
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December 2010 550 metres to the east. On 27 August 2010 at Drumgelloch, a 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.
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The line is intended to bring significant benefits to the West
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Edinburgh via
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and telecommunications had been awarded by July 2008. Remodelling of
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Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link – Reconnecting Communities
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Official site for the Airdrie–Bathgate railway link
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35:Reopened Caldercruix Railway Station
1805:Standard gauge railways in Scotland
1779:Waverley Route Heritage Association
1718:Stirling–Alloa–Kincardine rail link
1694:Railway electrification in Scotland
1058:Media. 11 July 2008. Archived from
974:"Rail link scheme gets green light"
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1081:"Blackridge station go-ahead".
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702:Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
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1701:Completed projects
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1328:Caledonian Sleeper
1243:on 2 February 2013
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1323:Avanti West Coast
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