Burnside railway station

Burnside
Scottish Gaelic: Taobh an Uillt
Looking west towards Croftfoot
Location
Place	Burnside
Local authority	South Lanarkshire
Coordinates	55°49′01″N 4°12′11″W / 55.8169°N 4.2030°WCoordinates: 55°49′01″N 4°12′11″W / 55.8169°N 4.2030°W
Grid reference	NS620603
Operations
Station code	BUI
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.328 million
2011/12	0.337 million
2012/13	0.319 million
2013/14	0.271 million
2014/15	0.275 million
History
Original company	Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
1 August 1904	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 Burnside from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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View westward, towards Glasgow in 1961

Burnside railway station serves the Burnside and Blairbeth areas of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is located on the Newton branch of the Cathcart Circle Lines, which has been electrified since 1962 by British Railways. This is the busiest railway station on the Newton branch.

History

The station was opened by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway on 1 August 1904.^[1]

Facilities

Access to this station is by one of two railway bridges and as a result there is no disabled access to trains from here. A single waiting room serves both platforms. The ticket office is only open on Mondays to Saturdays. Customer information screens are also available at this station. A help point is available, like on every other ScotRail station in Glasgow. Automatic announcements have recently been fitted at this station as well as all the stations on the Cathcart Circle. There is no dedicated car park, but six cycle storage places are available.^[2]

Services

From 1974

Following the electrification of the West Coast Main Line by British Rail, the basic service was:

• Monday to Saturday
  • two trains per hour between Glasgow Central and Kirkhill via Maxwell Park
  • two trains per hour between Glasgow Central and Newton via Queen's Park
• Sundays
  • two trains per hour between Glasgow Central and Newton via Queen's Park
• Additional peak hour services were provided to Motherwell via both sides of the Hamilton Circle.

From 1979

Following the opening of the Argyle Line in November 1979 by British Rail, services on the Cathcart Circle were reorganised. The basic service was:

• Monday to Saturday
  • two trains per hour between Glasgow Central and Newton via Maxwell Park
  • two trains per hour between Glasgow Central and Newton via Queen's Park
• Sundays
  • two trains per hour between Glasgow Central and Newton via Queen's Park

From 2005

• Monday to Sunday
  • one train per hour between Glasgow Central and Newton via Maxwell Park
  • one train per hour between Glasgow Central and Newton via Queen's Park

References

Notes

1. Butt (1995), page 49
2. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/BUI.aspx

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.