Disused railway lines and closed stations in Renfrewshire

46 miles of disused railway
25 closed stations
10 stations open today
16 named lost lines

Renfrewshire has 46 miles of disused railway and 25 closed stations, against 10 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.5 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Lyoncross to Paisley St James Line, with 5.2 miles of its route inside Renfrewshire.

See 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 46 miles of lost railway in Renfrewshire break down as 32 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 13 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 Renfrewshire

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

Line	Miles in county
Lyoncross to Paisley St James Line	5.2
Dalry and North Johnstone Line	4.3
Renfrew Branch	3.3
Dalry and North Johnstone rail trail	2.8
Paisley West and Barrhead Line	2.7
Renfrew and District Line	2.1
Paisley Canal Line	2.0
Linwood Branch	1.4
Cardonald and Deanside Branch	1.2
Elderslie No 2 Junction to Kilmacolm Branch	0.9
Gleniffer Branch	0.6
Johnston Branch North	0.6
Johnstone Loop	0.5
Meikleriggs Branch	0.4
Blackstone Mineral Works	0.3
Middleton Road	0.3

Closed railway stations in Renfrewshire

All 25 closed and former stations in Renfrewshire, 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 Renfrewshire

10 stations in Renfrewshire still have a train service. The busiest are Paisley Gilmour Street (3.2 million a year), Johnstone (1.1 million a year), Bishopton (701,908 a year), Paisley Canal (299,938 a year) and Hawkhead (217,388 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

Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and Argyll and Bute.

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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