Crossmyloof railway station

Crossmyloof railway station is a railway station serving the area of Crossmyloof in Glasgow, Scotland, located 1 mile 60 chains (2.8 km) from Glasgow Central. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is served by trains on the Glasgow South Western Line.

Crossmyloof
Scottish Gaelic: Crois MoLiubha[1]
Crossmyloof station, with a southbound train arriving at Platform 2
Location
PlaceCrossmyloof
Local authorityCity of Glasgow
Coordinates55.8338°N 4.2847°W / 55.8338; -4.2847
Grid referenceNS570624
Operations
Station codeCMY
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.612 million
2015/16 0.675 million
2016/17 0.689 million
2017/18 0.728 million
2018/19 0.716 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTESPT
History
Original companyGlasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
1 June 1888[2]Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Crossmyloof from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The overline station building was removed during the late 1990s. The overbridge (Titwood Road) was rebuilt during 2006.

On 6 October 2012, a Highland cow escaped the nearby Pollok Country Park and walked the rail line to this station, where it was captured and returned.[3]

Services

The station is served by trains on both the East Kilbride and Barrhead lines, with a half-hourly frequency to each (hourly to Barrhead in the evenings). This gives the station four departures each hour to Glasgow Central, these tend to be at 10, 20, 40 and 50 minutes past the hour, give or take a couple of minutes.

Sundays see a half-hourly service to East Kilbride and Glasgow Central but there is no service to Barrhead.[4]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Pollokshaws West   Abellio ScotRail
Glasgow South Western Line
   Glasgow Central
  Historical railways  
Pollokshaws West   Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways
Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
   South Side
1848 - 1877
Station closed
  Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways
Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
   Strathbungo
1877 - 1962
Line open; station closed

References
  1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Butt 1995, p. 73.
  3. "Crossmyloof Station". www.thetrainline.com. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  4. Table 222 National Rail timetable, May 2017

Sources
  • Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.


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