Bishopbriggs
Location type
StationName and dates
Bishopbriggs (1842-)Station code: BBG National Rail ScotRail
Where: East Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Perth.
Description
This is a two platform station on the Edinburgh and Glasgow main line and is served by local trains. The main building is on the Glasgow bound platform. The station crosses over Crowhill Drive on a bridge. It is located at Bishopbriggs Cross.
There were North British Railway style timber and brick buildings on each platform and an original stone built station building on the Edinburgh platform of two storeys at a slight angle to both railway and roadway below. These buildings have not survived and the present station building is modern.
There was a small goods yard at the east end of the station, on the south side of the line and approached from the west.
The station had two signal boxes, one at the passenger station, Bishopbriggs West, and another at the goods yard, Bishopbriggs East. The former closed around 1914-17 and the later closed in 1956 when absorbed by the Cowlairs resignalling.
The station has no car park. Crowhill Road passes directly under the station's platforms by means of a bridge spanning the single lane road.
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StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Eastfield Platform Ashfield Springburn Cowlairs Possilpark and Parkhouse Possil North Possilpark (Private) Barnhill St Rollox [2nd] Garngad Lochburn Balmore Robroyston Summerston [1st] Gilshochill | St Mungo Works Ironstone pits Venmure Quarry Crowgill Quarry Eagle Iron Works Huntershill Quarry Coltmuir Quarry Huntershill Brick Works Coltpark Quarry Springburn Park Goods Bishopbriggs Pit Ironstone Pit Ironstone Pit Ironstone Pit Brickworks |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1850 | Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Some villas built by Bishopbriggs station. |
