Disused railway lines and closed stations in East Dunbartonshire

26 miles of disused railway
10 closed stations
6 stations open today
14 named lost lines

East Dunbartonshire has 26 miles of disused railway and 10 closed stations, against 6 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 1.7 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Blane Valley Branch, with 7.4 miles of its route inside East Dunbartonshire.

See East Dunbartonshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 26 miles of lost railway in East Dunbartonshire break down as 22 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 4.5 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in East Dunbartonshire

14 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside East Dunbartonshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Blane Valley Branch	7.4
Kelvin Valley Line	6.3
Bairds Mineral Railway	1.9
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway	1.4
Canal Feeder Tramway	1.1
Waterside Branch	1.1
Bedlay Colliery Branch	1.0
Campsie Branch	0.7
Meiklehill Colliery	0.6
Twechar Colliery	0.6
Garngaber Spur	0.4
Gartshore Colliery	0.4
Auchenreoch Colliery	0.3
Middlemuir Loop	0.3

Closed railway stations in East Dunbartonshire

All 10 closed and former stations in East Dunbartonshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in East Dunbartonshire

6 stations in East Dunbartonshire still have a train service. The busiest are Milngavie (762,998 a year), Bishopbriggs (758,698 a year), Lenzie (719,886 a year), Westerton (674,870 a year) and Bearsden (399,528 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and Stirling.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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