This station is a local station in the north of Glasgow. Electric trains serve the station every half-hour running into Glasgow. [Timetables by Railtrack]

To the west of Bearsden station the railway is single track from Milngavie Junction. Near to the station it becomes double. A large loop exists running from the west end of Bearsden station to the east end of Hillfoot station. Bearsden station originally had a signal box on the north side of the track before the station and a goods yard (for coal handling mostly) on the right. The points for the sidings faced west to Westerton. The goods yard is now a car park. The original building was modified to form a Beefeater Restaurant in 1988. The down platform building was demolished several years previously. The up platform is the original single track platform. There was no loop as originally built. The photographs show some of the extensive track maintenance that was carried out one year before the track was singled, and the building before and after its conversion to a restaurant. The road bridge to the east of the station (and much of the road from Anniesland to Bearsden Cross) was built to take trams, but a tramline was never opened. A footpath runs alongside the railway between Bearsden and Hillfoot locally referred to as the Jubilee Path.

The building before conversion to a restaurant

Following conversion

The station's name was adopted for the town of New Kilpatrick after the North British Railway successfully encouraged house building in the vicinity (a system which had previously proven itself in Bishopbriggs). The station name came from a house in the locality (which was demolished to make way for the station) as illustrated in the "before and after" maps below.

Ordnance Survey Grid references

NS.538.714 Disused Parcel Van
NS.542.718 Bearsden Signal Box
NS.542.717 Bearsden Goods yard
NS.543.718 BEARSDEN Station (7.21 miles from Queen Street High Level)