Disused railway lines and closed stations in Glasgow

61 miles of disused railway
59 closed stations
60 stations open today
29 named lost lines

Glasgow has 61 miles of disused railway and 59 closed stations, against 60 stations still open today. That is 1.0 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the Hamiltonhill Lines, with 7.2 miles of its route inside Glasgow.

See Glasgow’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 61 miles of lost railway in Glasgow break down as 34 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 26 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 0.9 miles with track still in place but no trains. 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 Glasgow

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

Line	Miles in county
Hamiltonhill Lines	7.2
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Branch	4.0
Glasgow Lines	3.4
Carmyle and Bridgeton Cross Line	3.0
Kelvin Valley Line	2.4
Hamilton Branch	2.2
Glasgow Central Railway	2.1
Shieldhall Branch	2.0
Robroyston Branch	1.7
Buchanan Street Branch	1.6
Canal Feeder Tramway	1.4
Cardonald and Deanside Branch	1.2
London Road Branch	0.9
Provan Branch	0.9
Bridgeton Central Junction to Bridgeton Central	0.8
Cowdenhill Branch	0.8
North Electric Main Line	0.8
Ruchill Branch	0.8
Glasgow Barrhead and Kilmarnock Line	0.7
Whiteinch Branch	0.7
Newton West Junction to Carmyle Branch	0.6
Blochairn Branch	0.5
Terminus Junction to General Terminus	0.5
Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway	0.4
Blackhill Fork	0.4
Rothsay Dock Siding to Yoker Yard	0.4
St Enoch and Shields Road Line	0.4
Parkhead Steel Works	0.3
Saltmarket Branch	0.3

Closed railway stations in Glasgow

All 59 closed and former stations in Glasgow, 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 Glasgow

60 stations in Glasgow still have a train service. The busiest are Glasgow Central (25.3 million a year), Glasgow Queen Street (15.0 million a year), Partick (Rail) (3.1 million a year), Exhibition Centre (1.8 million a year) and Charing Cross (Glasgow) (1.6 million 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

East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire 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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