Clarkston railway station

For the former Clarkston station in Airdrie, see Drumgelloch railway station.

Clarkston
Easterly view from footbridge
General information
Location	Clarkston, East Renfrewshire Scotland
Coordinates	55.7894°N 4.2755°W / 55.7894; -4.2755
Grid reference	NS574574
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CKS
History
Original company	Busby Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
1 January 1866	Opened as Clarkston[1]
5 May 1952	Renamed as Clarkston and Stamperland[1]
7 May 1973	Renamed as Clarkston[1]
Passengers
2019/20	0.547 million
2020/21	65,206[a]
2021/22	0.234 million
2022/23	0.310 million
2023/24	0.409 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Clarkston railway station is a suburban side platform railway station in the town of Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the East Kilbride branch of the Glasgow South Western Line. It was opened in 1866 by the Busby Railway.

History

The station was opened by the Busby Railway on 1 January 1866.^[1] Services were subsequently extended through to East Kilbride by the Caledonian Railway two years later and eventually to High Blantyre (on the Hamilton and Strathaven Railway), though the section beyond East Kilbride closed back in the 1940s. A further pair of connections to the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway were subsequently constructed around 1903-4 by the latter company, though only the south to west one saw regular traffic and even then for just a few months.

Proposals put forward by British Rail in the early 1980s would have seen the former south to east curve reinstated to allow East Kilbride trains to be re-routed via Muirend, Cathcart and Mount Florida to Glasgow Central. The scheme would have seen the branch electrified but the Clarkston to Busby Junction portion would have been closed, along with Giffnock and Thornliebank stations. The plans were not well received and were eventually dropped.^[2]

Services

The station has a half-hourly service in each direction (including Sundays) to Glasgow Central and East Kilbride.^[3]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Busby		ScotRail Glasgow South Western Line		Giffnock
	Historical railways
Busby Line and station open		Caledonian Railway Busby Railway		Giffnock Line and station open

References

Notes

1. Impacted by the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom

Footnotes

1. Butt (1995), page 62
2. "Trans-Clyde Rail Map 1979"Urban Glasgow - Glasgow from the Past forum; Retrieved 31 August 2016
3. 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

External links

• Historical timetables, maps and satellite imagery for Clarkston railway station. See Timetable World - The online collection of historical transport timetables and maps from around the world^{[permanent dead link‍]}