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

For the station on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway see Crosshouse railway station.

Busby
Location	Busby, East Renfrewshire Scotland
Coordinates	55.7805°N 4.2623°W
Grid reference	NS582564
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BUS
History
Original company	Busby Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
1 January 1866	Opened[1]
Passengers
2015/16	0.168 million
2016/17	0.166 million
2017/18	0.167 million
2018/19	0.175 million
2019/20	0.175 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

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

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 modern row of 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 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.

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.

Gallery

• 
  Busby Station in 1970
• 
  A terminating train from Glasgow Central leaves Platform 2
• 
  Looking northwards towards Glasgow Central
• 
  Looking southwards towards East Kilbride

References

Notes

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

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• RAILSCOT on Busby Railway
• RAILSCOT on East Kilbride Line (Caledonian Railway)

External links

• Annotated video footage of Busby railway station in 2016.