Armadale grew up on coal, ironstone and brickmaking, and for a long time after those industries closed it changed very little. The reopening of the Airdrie to Bathgate railway, with a station on the south side of the town, altered that. Large areas of former industrial and farm land around the station have since been released for housing.
Roads are the other factor. The A89 crosses the town from Bathgate towards Airdrie, and the A801 just to the west links the M8 near Whitburn with the M9 at Polmont. That north-south route is well used by lorries and is the usual way in for muck-away and delivery traffic.
Coverage in and around Armadale
Blackridge, Westfield, Torphichen, Avonbridge and Whitburn are covered with Armadale, and Bathgate is only a couple of miles east. The town is roughly midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow with motorway access both ways, so it falls inside the working area of a good number of operators. Availability still has to be checked for each date.