Cathcart train station
You can reach 15 stations directly from Cathcart on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Glasgow Central, with 148 trains a day.
Cathcart is the nearest station for postcodes in G44. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Cathcart
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow Central | 148 | 140 | 60 |
| Crosshill | 111 | 105 | 60 |
| Mount Florida | 111 | 105 | 60 |
| Pollokshields East | 111 | 105 | 60 |
| Queens Park | 111 | 105 | 60 |
| Muirend | 74 | 70 | 60 |
| Neilston | 74 | 70 | 60 |
| Patterton | 74 | 70 | 60 |
| Whitecraigs | 74 | 70 | 60 |
| Williamwood | 74 | 70 | 60 |
| Langside | 37 | 35 | 0 |
| Maxwell Park | 37 | 35 | 0 |
| Pollokshields West | 37 | 35 | 0 |
| Pollokshaws East | 37 | 35 | 0 |
| Shawlands | 37 | 35 | 0 |
Lines serving Cathcart
Cathcart is on the Cathcart Circle, the Neilston (Lanark and Ayrshire) Branch and the Kirkhill Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Cathcart station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Cathcart station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Cathcart station is
544,872 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 831st busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 1,600 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Cathcart and Glasgow Central than any other pair: 368,446 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: 10 stations instead of 15, a drop of about 33%. Saturday runs to 15.
Nearest other stations
- Kings Park 0.6 miles
- Mount Florida 0.6 miles
- Langside 0.7 miles
- Muirend 0.7 miles
- Crosshill 1.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Cathcart, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Gushetfaulds · 1.7 miles
- Eglinton Street · 2.0 miles
- Southside · 2.0 miles
- Cumberland Street · 2.1 miles
- Gorbals · 2.1 miles
- Shields Road · 2.1 miles
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Facilities at Cathcart station
Cathcart is staffed part time, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:35 to 12:39 · Saturday: 07:35 to 13:39 · Sunday: closed
Waiting room
Cycle parking: 6 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Cathcart station
Cathcart station is in Glasgow City, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
The nearest motorway junction is M74 J1A, 1.6 miles north-east.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Cathcart 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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