Barrhead railway station

Barrhead
View from Platforms 2 and 3 at Barrhead railway station, looking towards Kilmarnock
Location
Place	Barrhead
Local authority	East Renfrewshire
Coordinates	55°48′14″N 4°23′50″W / 55.8040°N 4.3971°WCoordinates: 55°48′14″N 4°23′50″W / 55.8040°N 4.3971°W
Grid reference	NS498593
Operations
Station code	BRR
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	3
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	0.414 million
2004/05	0.473 million
2005/06	0.511 million
2006/07	0.551 million
2007/08	0.563 million
2008/09	0.698 million
2009/10	0.579 million
2010/11	0.616 million
2011/12	0.649 million
2012/13	0.669 million
2013/14	0.656 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
Pre-grouping	CR and G&SWR
Post-grouping	LMS
27 September 1848	Opened[1]
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Barrhead from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Barrhead station in 1970

Barrhead railway station is a railway station in the town of Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line, 7½ miles (12 km) south west of Glasgow Central.

History

The station was opened by the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway on 27 September 1848.^[1] The line southwards beyond Neilston (Low) to Kilmarnock via Dunlop (the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway) was added in 1871 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway and Caledonian Railway, giving travellers access to the G&SWR main line to Dumfries and Carlisle.

Facilities

The station has three platforms - one north-east facing bay (on the north-west side) specifically for terminating services and two through platforms, 1 and 2, which can be used for any service. A ticket machine serves Platforms 2 and 3 while an office is located on Platform 1.

Services

2008/2009

The station was generally served by a half-hourly service to and from Glasgow Central which stops at all intermediate stations. This was supplemented by a train heading to either Kilmarnock, Carlisle or Stranraer on an hourly basis, although a few train services did not stop.

2010

Following timetable change in December 2009, associated with the doubling of the line between Lugton and Stewarton, the station is generally served by a half-hourly service to and from Glasgow Central which stops at all intermediate stations. There is also a train to/from either Kilmarnock, Carlisle or Stranraer roughly every half-hour. Again, a few train services run non-stop through the station.

2015

The current service pattern is:

• 3tph to Glasgow Central, one of which start in Kilmarnock, the other two start here. 6 trains per day head to Glasgow from the North of England
• 2tph terminate here from Glasgow Central, calling at Crossmyloof, Pollokshaws West, Kennishead, Priesthill & Darnley and Nitshill
• 1tph to Kilmarnock
• 6tpd to Carlisle, 3 of which are extended to Newcastle

References

Notes

1. Butt (1995), page 28

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 Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
• RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
• Barrhead station on navigable OS map