Muirend Scottish Gaelic:Ceann an t-Slèibh[1]
Muirend station in 2020
General information
Location	Muirend,Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55°48′36″N4°16′26″W / 55.8101°N 4.2739°W /55.8101; -4.2739
Grid reference	NS575597
Managed by	ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	MUI
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
1 May 1903	Opened
Passengers
2020/21	52,254
2021/22	0.178 million
2022/23	0.244 million
2023/24	0.304 million
2024/25	0.337 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Muirend railway station is anisland platform suburbanrailway station in theMuirend area ofGlasgow, Scotland. The station, which opened in 1903, is managed byScotRail and lies on theNeilston branch of theCathcart Circle Lines.

The station was opened by theLanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway on 1 May 1903,^[2] as part of an extension from that company's previous northern terminus atGiffen to a junction with theCathcart District Railway at Cathcart. The route was completed through toNewton (on what is now theWest Coast Main Line) the following year, giving the L&AR a route between Lanarkshire and the coast at Ardrossan independent of theGlasgow and South Western Railway. Though the line carried freight and express boat trains from Adrossan to Glasgow Central, Muirend was only ever served by local suburban workings. A connection was laid in south of the station down to theBusby Railway atClarkston around the same time as the L&AR main line was opened, but it was never used for through traffic (only for wagon storage) and was disconnected by 1907 (though the brick viaduct it used still stands to this day),^[3] and only the crossover underneath the road bridge immediately south of the station remains of the kilometre long branch. Through passenger traffic over this route declined significantly after the1923 Grouping and regular passenger trains were withdrawn beyondUplawmoor in 1932.

Services through here were converted to diesel operation from 1958 and the Cathcart lines were subsequently electrified in 1962 (though the wires only ran as far as Neilston, the line beyond closing to passengers in April 1962 and completely in December 1964). Through trains toKirkhill and Newton also ended at this time, with passengers henceforth having to change atMount Florida. With popular demand, these services were reinstated in the 1980s. With electrification came theClass 303 'Blue Train' EMUs, which operated the Cathcart Circle and its branches until their withdrawal in the early 2000s.Class 314 EMUs cascaded from the Inverclyde routes by the introduction of theClass 334 Juniper EMUs took over workings, and were only replaced on the route a couple of months before their final withdrawal in December 2019.

British Rail and SPTE proposals published in the early 1980s would have seen the Clarkston spur reopened and used by re-routed trains to/fromEast Kilbride, which would have then run to Glasgow Central via Cathcart andQueens Park. The scheme would also have seen the East Kilbride branch electrified, but the Clarkston to Busby Junction section closed (along withPatterton andNeilston stations, with the line cut back toWhitecraigs). The proposals were not well received and were never implemented.^[3]

Services are now operated mainly by four-carClass 380/1 EMUs, with the three-coachClass 318 EMUs andClass 320 EMUs working together to provide six coach services at peak times. Two trains an hour operate in each direction, calling all stops fromGlasgow Central toNeilston. Additional peak time services operate betweenCentral andNeilston, calling only from Muirend through to the terminus. Sunday services are also half-hourly, but start around three hours later than on other days.

The station has anisland platform with a ramp providing access directly to the platform from Muirend Road at the south end of the station. At the north end, there is a footbridge access to and from Hillcrest Avenue and Cairndow Court. The station building (which is Category Blisted)^[4] contains a ticket office, staffed on a part-time basis. An automated ticket machine is present.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Williamwood		ScotRail Cathcart Circle Lines		Cathcart
	Historical railways
Whitecraigs Line and station open		Caledonian Railway Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway		Kirkhill Line and station open

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987].Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps.ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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.OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989).Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0.OCLC 22311137.

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