Busby railway station

For the station on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway 1843–1850, see Crosshouse railway station.

Busby
General information
Location	Busby, East Renfrewshire Scotland
Coordinates	55.7805°N 4.2623°W / 55.7805; -4.2623
Grid reference	NS582564
Managed by	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
2019/20	0.175 million
2020/21	23,424
2021/22	82,968
2022/23	0.105 million
2023/24	0.136 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Busby railway station is a railway station in the village of Busby, East Renfrewshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line 7+1⁄4 miles (11.7 km) south of Glasgow Central towards East Kilbride.

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 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			Following station
Thorntonhall or Hairmyres		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

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. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• 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.