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Glasgow And Milngavie Junction Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Track maintenance at Bearsden. View looks east towards station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/448.jpg "Bearsden")
![View looking west at Bearsden station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/449.jpg "Bearsden")
![View looking north at Bearsden station building before conversion to a Beefeater restaurant.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/450.jpg "Bearsden")
![View looking east at Bearsden station building following conversion to a Beefeater restaurant.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/451.jpg "Bearsden")
![Burnbrae goods shed, now in use by a timber company, on the former Burnbrae Dyeworks branch.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/452.jpg "Burnbrae")
![Ordnance Survey map of Burnbrae branch before doubling of the Milngavie line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/453.jpg "Burnbrae Map")
![Ordnance Survey map of Burnbrae branch after doubling of the Milngavie line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/454.jpg "Burnbrae Map")
![Gavins Mill, viewed from the west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/455.jpg "Milngavie")
![Gradient profile in Milngavie signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/456.jpg "Milngavie")
![Looking east at Hillfoot station in snow. Class 314 in station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/457.jpg "Hillfoot")
![Track lifting at Hillfoot, crane lifting track and reducing the railway from double track to single track.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/458.jpg "Hillfoot")
![Ordnance Survey map of Hillfoot.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/459.jpg "Hillfoot Map")
![Ordnance Survey map showing location of Bearsden station before construction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford Collection //]](/images/0/460.jpg "Bearsden Map")
![Ordnance Survey map of Bearsden when line was first opened as single track.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford Collection //]](/images/0/461.jpg "Bearsden Map")
![Class 303 heading towards Bearsden after leaving Westerton when line was still double track.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/462.jpg "Bearsden")
![View looking north at Burnbrae. Line when still double track and class 303 heading south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/463.jpg "Burnbrae")
![View looking south at Milngavie station at night.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/464.jpg "Milngavie")
![View looking north at Milngavie signalbox. Class 314 heading south. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/465.jpg "Milngavie")
![Ordnance Survey map of Milngavie.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/466.jpg "Milngavie Map")
![Class 303 sits in Milngavie station on a sunny winter day.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1911.jpg "Milngavie")
![Bearsden viewed from the hill to the north. [1988?]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6411.jpg "Bearsden")
![The interior of Hillfoots waiting room.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6435.jpg "Hillfoot")
![Looking south at Milngavie in a light sprinkling of snow.<br><br>[Garth Ponsonby //]](/images/6000/6486.jpg "Milngavie")
![Milngavie with a 303 in a light sprinkling of snow. Locomotive shed was to the right.<br><br>[Garth Ponsonby //]](/images/6000/6487.jpg "Milngavie")
![Southbound from Milngavie in lush greenery.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7181.jpg "Milngavie")
![Hillfoot with Milngavie train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7304.jpg "Hillfoot")
![Milngavie of a frosty morning. The low wall on the right is all that remains of the locomotive shed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7520.jpg "Milngavie")
![314 passing Milngavie signalbox on its second last day. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7689.jpg "Milngavie")
![Not the usual commuter train at Bearsden. Day after closure of Milngavie signalbox work gets going on the Yoker resignalling scheme.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7713.jpg "Bearsden")
![Surplus to requirements by a few minutes. The last train has just left Milngavie signalbox control. By kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7714.jpg "Milngavie")
![The interior of Milngavie signalbox on its second last day. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7715.jpg "Milngavie")
![A 311 heads south past the original junction for the Burnbrae goods branch in 1988.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/54000/54150.jpg "Burnbrae Goods")
![Milngavie. GN 0.6.2T 9562 on Springburn local in station in 1948.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/09/1948]](/images/7000/7399.jpg "Milngavie")
![A J37 0-6-0 carrying the LNER number 4541 stands on the Ellangowan paper mill siding alongside Milngavie station on 4 September 1948. The locomotive would not receive its British Railways '6' prefix for another 10 months. [See image 49723] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/09/1948]](/images/49000/49760.jpg "Milngavie")
![Ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 no 57652 approaching Milngavie Junction (Westerton Junction from 1959) at the south end of the Milngavie branch with the branch goods on 24 May 1957. The containers are thought to contain paper from the Ellangowan Mill. [Ref query 6552]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1957]](/images/49000/49723.jpg "Westerton Junction")
![N2 0-6-2T 69564 with a train from Bridgeton Central approaching Milngavie in July 1957. [Ref query 34641] The seldom used track to the right is the Burnbrae Branch.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/07/1957]](/images/53000/53165.jpg "Milngavie")
![Parkhead V1 67674 entering Hillfoot station, shortly after setting out from Milngavie with a train for Airdrie in July 1957. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/07/1957]](/images/53000/53366.jpg "Hillfoot")
![N2 0-6-2T 69595 arriving at Milngavie on 2 July 1957 with a train from Bridgeton Central.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/07/1957]](/images/54000/54762.jpg "Milngavie")
![An afternoon train for Airdrie prepares to leave Milngavie platform 1 in the summer of 1957. Locomotive in charge is Gresley V1 2-6-2T 67618 of Kipps shed. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/07/1957]](/images/55000/55725.jpg "Milngavie")
![Amidst great relief, the Milngavie line (and Springburn branch) finally gained a Sunday service in the late 1980s. But it was not always so - it had previously had a Sunday service. This was withdrawn on Sundays from the 1st of October 1967.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 01/10/1967]](/images/59000/59585.jpg "Milngavie")
![The overgrown goods yard at Hillfoot in 1987. The area was redeveloped for flats shortly afterwards.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7753.jpg "Hillfoot")
![A 303 heads for Bearsden after leaving Hillfoot. This view has a lot to answer for; my grandfather used to hold me up here to see the new trains.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7755.jpg "Hillfoot")
![I will forever think of this chap as the stationmaster at Bearsden. He must have been driven bananas by our returning there on-peak with an off-peak ticket.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7779.jpg "Bearsden")
![This sign once graced the west end of the Milngavie bound platform at Bearsden.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7781.jpg "Bearsden")
![On the approach to Milngavie. The box has gone and the line is single now.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7785.jpg "Milngavie")
![A skilled driver. The driver after a smooth ride from Lanark to Milngavie.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7786.jpg "Milngavie")
![Milngavie station at night.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7931.jpg "Milngavie")
![Milngavie at night.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8030.jpg "Milngavie")
![The terminus at Milngavie in 1987, mid July. The canopy roof was receiving some attention. This was the evening before I started work at Ravenscraig.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/25000/25507.jpg "Milngavie")
![Bearsdens station building being rebuilt to make it into a restaurant.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8564.jpg "Bearsden")
![303028 enters Milngavie station passing the semaphore signals in 1988.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/52000/52178.jpg "Milngavie")
![303028, recently arrived at Milngavie station, waits for passengers while the driver changes ends.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/54000/54121.jpg "Milngavie")
![311092 just west of Bearsden station en route to Westerton in 1988.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/54000/54135.jpg "Bearsden")
![Midway between Bearsden and Westerton 311097 passes under Canniesburn Road on its traditional route to Springburn.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/54000/54168.jpg "Bearsden")
![The ultimate 311. waits at Milngavie before leaving for Springburn<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1990]](/images/12000/12167.jpg "Milngavie")
![Track lifting in progress during singling of sections of the Milngavie<br>
branch in 1990. Scene just north of Hillfoot station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/51000/51322.jpg "Hillfoot")
![Last days of Milngavie signalbox in 1990. All the rubbish and various documents were disposed of. View looks south. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/56000/56736.jpg "Milngavie")
![SPT liveried 314209 approaching Hillfoot station from Milngavie on a winter's day in 1991 with a service to Springburn.<br>
<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1991]](/images/52000/52030.jpg "Hillfoot")
![320.307 passes the site of Milngavie signalbox early in 1991. The line had recently been singled, thus the approach 'wrong line' to the station, and snow can be seen on the disused rails to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1991]](/images/53000/53718.jpg "Milngavie")
![320 314 stands at Milngavie in March 1993 with a Springburn service, then the usual destination. Platform 2 track shows light usage.<br><br>[David Panton 30/03/1993]](/images/22000/22493.jpg "Milngavie")
![314 212 with a Lanark train at Hillfoot on 1 June 1997, first day of Sunday service on the Milngavie branch.<br><br>[David Panton 01/06/1997]](/images/17000/17937.jpg "Hillfoot")
![The first day of Sunday services on the Milngavie branch on 1 June 1997. 314 205 calls at Bearsden with a service to Motherwell via Bellshill.<br><br>[David Panton 01/06/1997]](/images/21000/21966.jpg "Bearsden")
![Class 314s heading for Milngavie at Bearsden in June 1997.<br><br>[David Panton /6/1997]](/images/16000/16733.jpg "Bearsden")
![A 6-car 303 arrives at Milngavie on 30 March 1998.<br><br>[David Panton 30/03/1998]](/images/18000/18809.jpg "Milngavie")
![320 316 on a Milngavie service calls at Bearsden in March 1999.<br><br>[David Panton 01/03/1999]](/images/22000/22208.jpg "Bearsden")
![Platform 1 at Milngavie terminus, February 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/02/2005]](/images/2000/2785.jpg "Milngavie")
![Likely Lads. Milngavie Station, February 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/02/2005]](/images/4000/4448.jpg "Milngavie")
![A cold and frosty February morning at Milngavie in 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/02/2005]](/images/5000/5619.jpg "Milngavie")
![Train leaving Milngavie heading to Glasgow. Dumgoyne and Mugdock bank are seen in the background.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 15/05/2005]](/images/4000/4026.jpg "Milngavie")
![The road approach to Bearsden station on 10 July 2005. The former station building now houses <I>The Inn</I>. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/07/2005]](/images/4000/4652.jpg "Bearsden")
![A Milngavie train calls at Bearsden in the summer of 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/07/2005]](/images/4000/4723.jpg "Bearsden")
![View over Hillfoot station on the Milngavie branch on 28th April 2007. Taken from the flats built as part of the redevelopment of the former goods yard. [See image 7753]<br><br>[Colin McDonald 28/04/2007]](/images/49000/49707.jpg "Hillfoot")
![Milngavie terminus on 17 July.<br><br>[David Panton 17/07/2007]](/images/15000/15872.jpg "Milngavie")
![318265 stands at Milngavie on 17 April awaiting the arrival of a 320 unit on the single line before starting its return journey to Larkhall.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/04/2008]](/images/18000/18720.jpg "Milngavie")
![The temporary ticket office in use at Milngavie on a wet 9 August, pending completion of refurbishment work on the main building. <br><br>[David Panton 09/08/2008]](/images/20000/20210.jpg "Milngavie")
![334 022 runs into platform 1 at a wet Milngavie station on 9 August, thus clearing the single line section for the train on platform 2 to depart with a service for High Street. <br><br>[David Panton 09/08/2008]](/images/21000/21598.jpg "Milngavie")
![<B> Milngavie </B> Map of 1922 showing NBR lines at Milngavie and Burnbrae including to paper works and to Burnbrae Dye Works. Branch to Burnbrae Dye Works had Bennie Railplane test track built over it.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 28/08/2008]](/images/20000/20450.jpg "Milngavie")
![Looking across the tracks towards the northbound platform at Bearsden on 8 August as 318 259 arrives on a service for Milngavie.<br><br>[David Panton 08/08/2009]](/images/24000/24961.jpg "Bearsden")
![The former station building at Bearsden (opened 1863) - now houses a stylish pub/restaurant known as <i>The Inn</i>. Photographed on 8 August 2009, with its modern day replacement standing alongside on the right and the platform entrance between the two.<br><br>[David Panton 08/08/2009]](/images/25000/25058.jpg "Bearsden")
![Scene at Hillfoot on 8 August 2009, with 320 310 on a High Street service.<br><br>[David Panton 08/08/2009]](/images/25000/25092.jpg "Hillfoot")
![334029 waits at Milngavie in the evening. The driver takes a rest in the small building on the left. A third platform existed until the mid 1980s on the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/09/2009]](/images/25000/25569.jpg "Milngavie")
![Standing obligingly in sequential order at Milngavie on 14 July are 318 264 and 318 265. 264 has recently arrived form Bellgrove. Oddly perhaps the return workings are to High Street, one stop short. I could be wrong, but I doubt these workings will survive intact when the timetable is redrawn for December and the Airdrie - Bathgate reopening. At Platform 1 265 is preparing to depart with a Motherwell service. Platform 1: Argyle Line, Platform 2: North Clyde Line is the usual arrangement, with trains departing every 15 minutes in turn.<br><br>[David Panton 14/07/2010]](/images/29000/29814.jpg "Milngavie")
![As at quite a few other places it was the name chosen for the station that gave the name to the community which built up around it. Nobody seems sure where the railway got 'Bearsden' from. If it was a jocular reference to a bear's den then it didn't stop the area becoming one of Glasgow's smarter 'pan loaf' suburbs. A 6-car Juniper pulls in for Milngavie on 14 July.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/07/2010]](/images/29000/29830.jpg "Bearsden")
![318 252 arrives at Milngavie platform 1 on 14 July 2010. <br><br>[David Panton 14/07/2010]](/images/29000/29856.jpg "Milngavie")
![Scotrail is keen to render celtic-based placenames into Gaelic on <br>
bilingual station signs. Milngavie is from the gaelic for, apparently, either windmill or Gavin's mill. I've no problem with Muillean (mill) but there doesn't seem to be such a word as 'Gaidh'. Is this just an attempt to render 'guy' into Gaelic to tie in with the pronunciation? Photographed on 14 July 2010.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/07/2010]](/images/29000/29888.jpg "Milngavie")
![334017 pulls away from Bearsden heading along the short double track section to Hillfoot that sits in the middle of the mainly single track Milngavie line. This <I>dynamic loop</I> allows an intensive service to be operated on the branch. The original station building is now a pub/restaurant and the small modern ticket office and waiting room is just beyond it on the Up platform.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/05/2011]](/images/34000/34356.jpg "Bearsden")
![The new heritage poster now on display at Milngavie station [see news item]<br><br>[ScotRail 19/04/2012]](/images/18000/18400.jpg "Milngavie")
![320312 prepares to leave Milngavie with the 16.12 for Motherwell on 18 February as 334023 waits at platform 2 with the 16.23 limited stop service to Edinburgh.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 18/02/2013]](/images/42000/42249.jpg "Milngavie")
![Volunteers at Milngavie station alongside the <I>Milngavie in Bloom</I> poster currently on display there. A small exhibition to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Milngavie station is to be held in the nearby Town Hall from 10th-14th September alongside displays showing the work of some of the Milngavie clubs and societies during that period. It will also be part of East Dunbartonshire Doors Open Day on 14th September.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 27/07/2013]](/images/43000/43963.jpg "Milngavie")
![Milngavie viewed from the trackbed of the former third platform - now a walkway beside the station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/04/2015]](/images/51000/51055.jpg "Milngavie")
![Milngavie station, looking surprisingly lush for the time of year!<br><br>[John Yellowlees 10/12/2015]](/images/53000/53582.jpg "Milngavie")
![A barrel planter at Milngavie station, where it all began for Railscot. (The first page was on the Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway.)<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/04/2016]](/images/54000/54945.jpg "Milngavie")
![Familiar stock in unfamiliar livery can look quite striking: 320 411 stabled at Milngavie on 30/04/2016.<br><br>[David Panton 30/04/2016]](/images/54000/54992.jpg "Milngavie")
![SPT carmine and cream lingers on. The driver prepares 318 250 heading a Cumbernauld service on 30/04/2016. With Platform 2 being used for stabling turnaround times are not long, with the driver having just enough time to walk six coaches.<br><br>[David Panton 30/04/2016]](/images/55000/55005.jpg "Milngavie")
![Barrel train and real train at Milngavie. [John noted there should be a plaque - an overly detailed page on the Milngavie line was the first page on RailScot. -Ed]<br><br>[John Yellowlees 18/05/2017]](/images/59000/59636.jpg "Milngavie")
![A Milngavie to Edinburgh service makes its first stop, Hillfoot, on<br>
17/06/2017.<br><br>[David Panton 17/06/2017]](/images/59000/59777.jpg "Hillfoot")
![A Milngavie to Motherwell service calls at Bearsden on 17/06/2017.<br><br>[David Panton 17/06/2017]](/images/59000/59783.jpg "Bearsden")
