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 mi south of Glasgow Central towards East Kilbride.

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 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. A few extra trains operate at weekday peak times.

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