Disused railway lines and closed stations in East Renfrewshire
- 10 miles of disused railway
- 9 closed stations
- 9 stations open today
- 5 named lost lines
East Renfrewshire has 10 miles of disused railway and 9 closed stations, against 9 stations still open today. That is 1.0 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, with 2.9 miles of its route inside East Renfrewshire.
See East Renfrewshire’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 10 miles of lost railway in East Renfrewshire break down as 5.4 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 5.0 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 Renfrewshire
5 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside East Renfrewshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.
| Line | Miles in county |
|---|---|
| Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway | 2.9 |
| Lyoncross to Paisley St James Line | 2.9 |
| Paisley West and Barrhead Line | 1.1 |
| Busby Print Works Branch | 0.5 |
| Clarkston Loop | 0.3 |
Closed railway stations in East Renfrewshire
All 9 closed and former stations in East Renfrewshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.
- Balgray Wikipedia
- Balgray station (Barrhead south) Wikipedia
- Barrhead (New) Wikipedia
- Barrhead Central Wikipedia
- Barrhead South Wikipedia
- Neilston Low Wikipedia
- Netherton Goods Wikipedia
- Uplawmoor (GB&K) Wikipedia
- Uplawmoor (L&A) Wikipedia
Stations still open in East Renfrewshire
9 stations in East Renfrewshire still have a train service. The busiest are Barrhead (553,018 a year), Patterton (488,400 a year), Neilston (375,994 a year), Whitecraigs (321,218 a year) and Clarkston (320,542 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, Renfrewshire, East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire.
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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