Hillfoot railway station

Hillfoot railway station is a railway station in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire near Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and lies on the Argyle Line and North Clyde Line.

Hillfoot
Scottish Gaelic: Bun a' Chnuic[1]
Location
PlaceBearsden
Local authorityEast Dunbartonshire
Coordinates55.9203°N 4.3199°W / 55.9203; -4.3199
Grid referenceNS550721
Operations
Station codeHLF
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.327 million
2015/16 0.319 million
2016/17 0.318 million
2017/18 0.318 million
2018/19 0.332 million
History
1 May 1900Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hillfoot from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

It was opened on 1 May 1900[2] after the railway was double tracked.[3]

Passenger services are operated by Abellio ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.

The station is used in the BBC comedy series Burnistoun.

Facilities

The station has a small car park (16 spaces) but no staffed ticket office.[4]

Services

Trains to Glasgow operate on a regular schedule, with a departure once every 15 minutes on Monday to Saturday daytimes. Two trains per hour go to Motherwell via Glasgow Central on the Argyle Line, while the other two travel via Queen Street on the North Clyde Line and run to Edinburgh Waverley. In the evenings and on Sundays, a half-hourly service operates via Glasgow Central.[5]

Trains also go northbound towards Milngavie, Monday to Saturdays daytimes every 15 minutes and half-hourly evenings and Sundays. Northbound Argyle line services at this station run from Larkhall.

The station is currently not staffed and passengers are advised to buy tickets on board the train. The station does have two help point buttons located one each on Platforms 1 and 2. A footbridge connects the two platforms.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Bearsden   Abellio ScotRail
Argyle Line
   Milngavie
Bearsden   Abellio ScotRail
North Clyde Line
   Milngavie
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References
  1. Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Railscot - Chronology for Milngavie
  3. Crawford, Ewan (25 January 2006). "Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway".
  4. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/hlf/details.html
  5. Table 225 & 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016


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