Bishopton

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Bishopton (1841-)

Station code: BPT National Rail ScotRail
Where: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Opened on the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway.
Open on the Inverclyde Lines.

Description

This is a two platform station with an original station building on the southbound (up) platform. There are car parks on the old goods yard south end of the station, east side of the line and shunted from the south) and an area of ground to the west.

The northbound (Greenock) platform had a large timber waiting room, now gone. A timber extension of the southbound (Glasgow) platform building has been removed but the building otherwise restored.

The tall signal box was at the south end of the northbound platform.

To the west was the junction for ROF Bishopton and exchange sidings (6 looped sidings). Approach was from the south. These sidings have been lifted. A long crude platform canopy was at the north end of the Glasgow bound platform to handle the considerable passenger numbers to and from this munitions depot.

The box closed in 1966, closed in the run up to electrification and replaced by Paisley Power Box.

Further north is the Bishopton Cutting, Bishopton No 1 Tunnel and Bishopton No 2 Tunnel all driven through a hard whinstone rock ridge which proved a considerable challenge when the line was built.

Tags

Station

Facilities

Bike rack
Free parking
Ticket machine
Toilets
Staffed




News items

23/08/2022Trains limited to 5mph after rocks crash onto tracks [Daily Record]
06/06/2022Glasgow rail services disrupted after bull wanders onto train line [Glasgow Live]
01/02/2022Commuters face disruption as 40-50 SHEEP on train line near Bishopton outside of Glasgow [Glasgow Times]
09/08/2019Scotland's weather: Hundreds stranded on ScotRail trains [Scotsman]
11/03/2018Clapped-out train causes double breakdowns on Inverclyde line [Greenock Telegraph]
22/01/2003Rockfall at Bishopton
03/04/2001First public run of new class 334s [Railscot]

Books


Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History)