Muirend railway station

Muirend
Scottish Gaelic: Ceann an t-Slèibh
Muirend railway station, looking north
Location
Place	Muirend
Local authority	Glasgow
Coordinates	55°48′36″N 4°16′26″W / 55.8101°N 4.2739°WCoordinates: 55°48′36″N 4°16′26″W / 55.8101°N 4.2739°W
Grid reference	NS575597
Operations
Station code	MUI
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	0.285 million
2004/05	0.277 million
2005/06	0.290 million
2006/07	0.280 million
2007/08	0.295 million
2008/09	0.345 million
2009/10	0.326 million
2010/11	0.345 million
2011/12	0.356 million
2012/13	0.350 million
2013/14	0.338 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
1 May 1903	Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Muirend from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Muirend railway station is a railway station in Muirend, a district of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and lies on the Neilston branch of the Cathcart Circle Lines.

History

The station was opened by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway on 1 May 1903,^[1] as part of an extension from that company's previous northern terminus at Giffen to a junction with the Cathcart District Railway at Cathcart.

Services and facilities

The station is served by the Glasgow Central to Neilston branch, which for operating purposes is grouped as part of the Cathcart Circle lines.^[2] The service is mainly used by commuters travelling into the centre of Glasgow. Trains run mainly every half-hour in each direction during daytime, with some additional services during rush hour periods. A Sunday service has also been introduced in recent years.^[3]

The station has an island platform with a ramp providing access directly to the platform from Muirend Road at the south end of the station. At the north end, there is footbridge access to and from Hillcrest Avenue and Cairndow Court. The station building (which is a Category B listed building)^[4] contains a ticket office which is manned on a part-time basis. An automated ticket machine is present.

References

Notes

1. Butt, page 165
2. Map of SPT rail network
3. ScotRail timetable: Glasgow - Cathcart Circle / Neilston / Newton Accessed 24 September 2006
4. Historic structures on Scotland's active railways

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.