Busby railway station

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7+1⁄4 miles (11.7 km) south of Glasgow Central towards East Kilbride.

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History

The station was opened by the Busby Railway on 1 January 1866. [1]

Busby
National Rail logo.svg
Busby Railway Station 07.JPG
General information
Location Busby, East Renfrewshire
Scotland
Coordinates 55°46′50″N4°15′44″W / 55.7805°N 4.2623°W / 55.7805; -4.2623
Grid reference NS582564
Managed by ScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeBUS
History
Original company Busby Railway
Pre-grouping Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping LMS
Key dates
1 January 1866Opened [1]
Passengers
2018/19Increase2.svg 0.175 million

The 1914 edition of the Ordnance Survey map shows that there was once a goods yard immediately south-east of the present station. There was also a goods line (identified as a 'mineral railway') that branched southwards off the main line immediately south of Busby Station. It passed through the area now occupied by housing on Westerton Avenue and then swung south-westwards through what is currently woodland and a walkway. The line then terminated in a goods yard, which was located in the modern-day Field Road Industrial Estate.

There was also a station building on the down (Glasgow bound) line, but it was destroyed by fire in 1965.

The line reduces from double to single track just to the east of the station, remaining single all the way to the terminus except for a passing loop near Hairmyres. Signalling control is now handled by the West of Scotland SCC at Cowlairs, which replaced the former Glasgow Central signalling centre in 2008.

Services

The station has a daily (including Sundays) half-hourly service in each direction; to Glasgow Central and to East Kilbride. [2] A few extra trains operate at weekday peak times.

Preceding station National Rail logo.svg National Rail Following station
Thorntonhall   ScotRail
Glasgow South Western Line
  Clarkston
  Historical railways  
connection to
East Kilbride Line		  Caledonian Railway
Busby Railway
  Clarkston
Line and station open
Thorntonhall
Line and station open		  Caledonian Railway
East Kilbride Line
 connection to
Busby Railway

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References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Butt (1995), p. 50
  2. ↑ Table 222 National Rail timetable, May 2016

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