Busby Railway Station

Busby railway station is a railway station in the village of Busby, East Renfrewshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line south of towards. HistoryThe station was opened by the Busby Railway on 1 January 1866. 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 what is now a housing estate in the Westerton Avenue area and then swung south-westwards through what is still open land. The line then terminated in a goods yard which appears to have been in the area now occupied by housing on the street known as Birchview Drive. There was also a station building on the Down (Glasgow bound) line but this 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. ServicesThe station has a daily half-hourly service in each direction; to and to. A few extra trains operate at weekday peak times.

Busby railway station is a railway station in the village of Busby, East Renfrewshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line south of towards. HistoryThe station was opened by the Busby Railway on 1 January 1866. 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 what is now a housing estate in the Westerton Avenue area and then swung south-westwards through what is still open land. The line then terminated in a goods yard which appears to have been in the area now occupied by housing on the street known as Birchview Drive. There was also a station building on the Down (Glasgow bound) line but this 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. ServicesThe station has a daily half-hourly service in each direction; to and to. A few extra trains operate at weekday peak times.