In 2022/2023, Carstairs had 13,506 entries and exits, making it the 2,281^st most used, out of 2,575 stations in Great Britain.
It ranked 930^th busiest (out of 997), with 103 scheduled services per week.
That's a daily average of 37.00 passengers* starting or ending their journey here and 2.52 passengers per service*, giving it the 1,456^th (out of 1,659) passenger to service ratio.
* This increases to a daily average of 56.36 passengers passing through the station and 5.16 passengers per service when interchanges are included.
Service sample data based on scheduled services during the first week of the May 22 timetable.

A detailed breakdown of passenger journeys between individual stations can be found in our origin/destination matrix pages.

Plat.	Metres	VF*	Notes
1	270	981	Down Platform (Bi-Directional)
2	290	1054	Up Platform (Bi-Directional)

*VF = Vicki Feet: the unit of measurement for platform lengths, as used in the excellent All The Stations. Conversion rate: YouTube video
Data derived from Network Rail timetable planning rules 2025 (Jan 2024)

2011-12 Cause of large increase not clear
2012-13 Reason for increase unclear - continues large growth from previous year
2013-14 Continues strong growth seen in previous years
2014-15 High growth trend
2015-16 Change in usage during WCML repairs
2016-17 West Coast Mainline closure at Lamington still affecting services in 2016
2020-21 The number of entries and exits at this station increased by less than 10% in 2020-21 as a result of improvements to the methodology for estimating Caledonian Sleeper journeys. However, the figure presented is still likely to be an underestimate of the true usage at this station due to the inclusion of refunded journeys processed early in the year relating to journeys booked in 2019-20.

Location: Carstairs
CRS: CRS / NLC: 9704 / TIPLOC(S): CRSTRS , CRSTRSS
Station Facility Owner: ScotRail
OS Grid Ref: 295200 645456
Constituency: Lanark and Hamilton East
Local Authority: South Lanarkshire
NR Region: Scotland
PTE: Strathclyde
ELR: WCM1 73m 49ch
This station is part of the Strathclyde PTE

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Top 5 jouneys from Carstairs during 2022/2023:
•Edinburgh (3,670 journeys)
•Glasgow Central (879 journeys)
•Haymarket (679 journeys)
•Glasgow Queen Street (495 journeys)
•Motherwell (98 journeys)
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