Busby railway station

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

Busby
Location
Place	Busby
Local authority	East Renfrewshire
Coordinates	55.780°N 4.262°W / 55.780; -4.262
Operations
Station code	BUS
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	87,892
2005/06 *	94,433
2006/07 *	99,035
2007/08 *	0.106 million
2008/09 *	0.142 million
History
Original company	Busby Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
1 January 1866	Opened
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Busby from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Busby railway station is a railway station in the village of Busby, East Renfrewshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line 7¼ rail miles (12 km) 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 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.

Services

The station has a daily half hourly service in each direction; to Glasgow Central and to East Kilbride.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Thorntonhall		First 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

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  Busby Station in 1970

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  A terminating train from Glasgow Central leaves Platform 2

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  Looking northwards towards Glasgow Central

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  Looking southwards towards East Kilbride

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• RAILSCOT on Busby Railway
• RAILSCOT on East Kilbride Line (Caledonian Railway)