Easterhouse railway station

Easterhouse Scottish Gaelic: An Taigh Sear[1]
A Class 320 departing Easterhouse railway station
General information
Location	Easterhouse, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55.8599°N 4.1066°W / 55.8599; -4.1066
Grid reference	NS682649
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	EST
History
Original company	Coatbridge Bridge, NBR
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
1 February 1871	Opened[2]
Passengers
2019/20	0.339 million
2020/21	41,514
2021/22	0.177 million
2022/23	0.231 million
2023/24	0.292 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Easterhouse railway station serves the Easterhouse area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was built by the North British Railway as part of their Coatbridge Branch and opened when the branch opened on 1 February 1871.^[2] The station is 5¾ miles (9 km) east of Glasgow Queen Street railway station on the North Clyde Line and is managed by ScotRail.

Daily services

Monday to Saturday daytimes:^[3]

• Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
• Half-hourly service towards Airdrie
• Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level
• Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level (as of August 2016 this service no longer calls at Shettleston, Cartyne and Bellgrove. Passengers for these stations have to use the half-hourly service towards Balloch instead.)

Evening services are as follows:

• Half-hourly service towards Airdrie via all stations
• Half-hourly service towards Balloch via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level

Sunday services are as follows:

• Half-hourly service towards Edinburgh Waverley
• Half-hourly service towards Helensburgh Central

Rolling stock

The current rolling stock operating the North Clyde Lines are Class 320s, Class 318 and Class 334.

Previous operations

From the 1960s after electrification by British Railways, both Class 311s and Class 303s operated the North Clyde Lines. During a fleet cascade it was common to find a Class 314, Class 311 or Class 303. During the 1990s the Class 320s were introduced to the North Clyde Lines. The Class 311s were then withdrawn and both Class 303s and 320s operated together until 2002 when the final Class 303 unit was withdrawn. The Class 334s then entered service. Initially, the units were set for the Ayrshire Lines but they operated the North Clyde lines during peak-hour times.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Blairhill		ScotRail North Clyde Line		Garrowhill
	Historical railways
Bargeddie (NBR) Line open; Station closed		Coatbridge Branch North British Railway		Garrowhill Line and Station open

References

Notes

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt (1995), page 88
3. Table 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources

• Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• 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.