Paisley Gilmour Street railway station
Paisley Gilmour Street 
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| Scottish Gaelic: Sràid GhilleMhoire Phàislig | |
Paisley Gilmour Street from County Square
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| Location | |
| Place | Paisley |
| Local authority | Renfrewshire |
| Coordinates | 55°50′51″N 4°25′27″W / 55.8474°N 4.4242°WCoordinates: 55°50′51″N 4°25′27″W / 55.8474°N 4.4242°W |
| Grid reference | NS482642 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | PYG |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Owned by | Network Rail |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 3.641 million |
| 2012/13 |
 3.745 million |
| 2013/14 |
3.954 million |
| 2014/15 |
4.090 million |
| 2015/16 |
4.158 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | SPT |
| History | |
| Original company | Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway & Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway |
| Pre-grouping | CR & G&SWR |
| Post-grouping | LMS |
| 14 July 1840 | Opened: 2 platforms and 2 lines |
| 1880 | Expanded to 4 lines and 4 platforms |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Paisley Gilmour Street from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Paisley Gilmour Street railway station is the largest of the four stations serving the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland (Gilmour Street, St. James, Paisley Canal and Hawkhead), and acts as the town's principal railway station. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line, 7 1⁄4 miles (11.7 km) west of Glasgow Central. The station is protected as a category B listed building.
The station was opened on 14 July 1840 on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (GPK&AR). The station was used jointly by the GPK&AR and the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway (GP&GR). However, the GP&GR did not run services until March 1841 due to construction difficulties at Bishopton.
It was originally built with only two through platforms, with the GPK&R and the GP&GR lines separating to the west of the station. The station was later expanded to four platforms, two for the GPK&R and two for the GP&GR, with the lines separating to the east of the station.
The section between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Paisley Gilmour Street station was a joint line: the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway.
The station was electrified as part of the 1967 Inverclyde Line. Ayrshire Coast Line platforms (then numbered 1 and 2) were wired, however the wires finished a short distance west of the station. These were extended as part of the Ayrshire Line electrification by British Rail in 1986. This 1986 work coincided with the renumbering of the platforms with the Glasgow bound platforms numbered 1 (Inverclyde) and 3 (Ayrshire), and the outbound platforms numbers 2 (Inverclyde) and 4 (Ayrshire).
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