Hillington East train station
You can reach 34 stations directly from Hillington East on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Glasgow Central, with 79 trains a day.
See Hillington East on the map
Hillington East is the nearest station for postcodes in G52. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Hillington East
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow Central | 79 | 76 | 59 |
| Hillington West | 79 | 76 | 33 |
| Paisley Gilmour Street | 79 | 76 | 59 |
| Bishopton | 77 | 75 | 59 |
| Cardonald | 77 | 76 | 32 |
| Port Glasgow | 77 | 75 | 59 |
| Langbank | 74 | 73 | 31 |
| Paisley St James | 74 | 72 | 31 |
| Woodhall | 74 | 73 | 32 |
| Branchton | 52 | 52 | 27 |
| Drumfrochar | 52 | 52 | 27 |
| Inverkip | 52 | 52 | 27 |
| Wemyss Bay | 52 | 52 | 27 |
| Whinhill | 52 | 52 | 27 |
| Bogston | 25 | 23 | 32 |
| Cartsdyke | 25 | 23 | 32 |
| Fort Matilda | 25 | 23 | 31 |
| Greenock Central | 25 | 23 | 32 |
| Greenock West | 25 | 23 | 32 |
| Gourock | 25 | 23 | 32 |
| Ayr | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Barassie | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Dalry | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Glengarnock | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Irvine | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Johnstone | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Kilwinning | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Newton-on-Ayr | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Prestwick International Airport | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Prestwick Town | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Troon | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Howwood | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Lochwinnoch | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Milliken Park | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Hillington East
Hillington East is on the Ayr Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Hillington East station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Hillington East station on 16 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 4 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 1 of them runs whatever the traffic; the rest are 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 21 September 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 Hillington East station is
230,266 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,298th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Hillington East and Glasgow Central than any other pair: 118,638 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: 20 stations instead of 34, a drop of about 41%. Saturday runs to 34.
Nearest other stations
- Cardonald 0.6 miles
- Hillington West 0.6 miles
- Crookston 0.9 miles
- Mosspark 1.0 miles
- Corkerhill 1.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Hillington East, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Deanside · 1.3 miles
- Whiteinch Riverside · 1.5 miles
- Scotstoun East · 1.5 miles
- Ibrox closed 1967 · 1.7 miles
- Whiteinch Victoria Park · 1.7 miles
- Govan · 1.8 miles
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Facilities at Hillington East station
Hillington East is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:10 to 13:14 · Saturday: 08:10 to 14:14 · Sunday: closed
Waiting room
Cycle parking: 10 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Hillington East station
Hillington East station is in Glasgow City, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
The nearest motorway junction is M8 J25 (Cardonald), 0.4 miles north-east.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Hillington East 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