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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.
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.
Gallery
References
= Notes
== 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.
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