Broomhouse railway station

The station was opened by the North British Railway to serve the Broomhouse area in 1878^[1] on the Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway route.

The route was also known as the London and North Eastern Railway's Hamilton Branch. It closed to passenger traffic on 4 October 1927 and to freight in 1953, having been previously closed to passengers between 1917 and 1919 as a wartime economy.^[1] The line was closed to freight traffic on 4 October 1964. Passenger trains continued to run to Bothwell until 4 July 1955.^[3]

A signal box that controlled the colliery line lay at the south end of the station on the north side, replaced in 1914 and closed in 1960.^[4] Daldowie and Broomhouse collieries lay nearby to the north and south respectively,^[5] and crossovers on the double-track line in the area of the station allowed for the movement of waggons for these customers. There was a siding to a brickworks.^[5] The ticket office and waiting room were on the south platform, and a shelter on the north and a pedestrian footbridge were present.^[6][7]

The line to the west cut over the Caledonian Railway's Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway line.^[7]

A road now runs across the old station site.

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.

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