Barrhead train station
You can reach 25 stations directly from Barrhead on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Glasgow Central, with 94 trains a day.
Barrhead is the nearest station for postcodes in G78. Check your own postcode.
- 25 direct destinations
- 824th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 110 parking spaces
Direct trains from Barrhead
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow Central | 94 | 92 | 28 |
| Dunlop | 68 | 66 | 28 |
| Kilmaurs | 68 | 66 | 28 |
| Kilmarnock | 68 | 66 | 28 |
| Stewarton | 68 | 66 | 28 |
| Kennishead | 62 | 62 | 26 |
| Nitshill | 62 | 62 | 26 |
| Priesthill & Darnley | 62 | 62 | 26 |
| Crossmyloof | 61 | 62 | 0 |
| Pollokshaws West | 61 | 62 | 26 |
| Auchinleck | 19 | 17 | 4 |
| Dumfries | 18 | 17 | 4 |
| Kirkconnel | 18 | 17 | 4 |
| New Cumnock | 18 | 17 | 4 |
| Sanquhar | 18 | 17 | 4 |
| Annan | 14 | 14 | 4 |
| Carlisle | 14 | 14 | 4 |
| Gretna Green | 14 | 14 | 4 |
| Ayr | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Prestwick Town | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Troon | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Girvan | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Maybole | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Barrhill | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Stranraer | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Barrhead
Barrhead is on the Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Barrhead station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Barrhead station on 8 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 1 path on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Barrhead station is
553,018 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 824th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Barrhead and Glasgow Central than any other pair: 389,290 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Sundays
Sunday is a different railway here: 17 stations instead of 25, a drop of about 32%. Saturday runs to 25.
Nearest other stations
- Nitshill 1.5 miles
- Neilston 1.9 miles
- Priesthill & Darnley 2.2 miles
- Patterton 2.6 miles
- Hawkhead 2.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Barrhead, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Barrhead Central · 0.2 miles
- Barrhead (New) · 0.3 miles
- Barrhead South · 0.6 miles
- Netherton Goods · 1.3 miles
- Balgray station (Barrhead south) · 1.4 miles
- Glenfield · 1.8 miles
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Facilities at Barrhead station
Barrhead is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:50 to 19:50 · Saturday: 06:50 to 19:50 · Sunday: 09:10 to 16:50
Toilets
Parking at Barrhead station
- Station Car Park 8 spaces, 2 accessible
free - Local Authority car park 102 spaces, 8 accessible
Cycle parking: 10 spaces (lockers).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 31 August 2026.
Getting to Barrhead station
Barrhead station is in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
The nearest motorway junction is M77 J4 (Crookfur Interchange), 2.2 miles south-east.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Barrhead station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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