Muirend railway station
Muirend 
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| Scottish Gaelic: Ceann an t-Slèibh | |
View north from Muirend Road entrance
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| Location | |
| Place | Muirend |
| Local authority | Glasgow |
| Coordinates | 55°48′36″N 4°16′26″W / 55.8101°N 4.2739°WCoordinates: 55°48′36″N 4°16′26″W / 55.8101°N 4.2739°W |
| Grid reference | NS575597 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | MUI |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.356 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.350 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.338 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.367 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.375 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | SPT |
| History | |
| Original company | Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway |
| Post-grouping | LMS |
| 1 May 1903 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Muirend from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Muirend railway station is an island platform suburban railway station in the Muirend area of Glasgow, Scotland. The station, which opened in 1903, is managed by Abellio ScotRail and lies on the Neilston branch of the Cathcart Circle Lines.
The station was opened by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway on 1 May 1903, as part of an extension from that company's previous northern terminus at Giffen to a junction with the Cathcart District Railway at Cathcart. The route was completed through to Newton (on what is now the West Coast Main Line) the following year, giving the L&AR a route between Lanarkshire and the coast at Ardrossan independent of the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Though the line carried freight and express boat trains from Adrossan to Glasgow Central, Muirend was only ever served by local suburban workings. A connection was laid in south of the station down to the Busby Railway at Clarkston around the same time as the L&AR main line was opened, but it was never used for through traffic (only for wagon storage) and was disconnected by 1907 (though the brick viaduct it used still stands to this day). Through passenger traffic over this route declined significantly after the 1923 Grouping and regular passenger trains were withdrawn beyond Uplawmoor in 1932.
Services through here were converted to diesel operation from 1958 and the Cathcart lines were subsequently electrified in 1962 (though the wires only ran as far as Neilston, the line beyond closing to passengers in April 1962 and completely in December 1964). Through trains to Kirkhill & Newton also ended at this time, with passengers henceforth having to change at Mount Florida.
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