Station code BUS 2011/12 0.146 million Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference NS582564 2012/13 0.155 million | |
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Similar Hairmyres railway station, Clarkston railway station, Thorntonhall railway station, East Kilbride railway st, Giffnock railway station | ||
Busby railway station renfrewshire
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.
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History
The 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.
Services
The station has a daily (including Sundays) half-hourly service in each direction; to Glasgow Central and to East Kilbride. A few extra trains operate at weekday peak times.