Carmyle railway station
Carmyle railway station is located in the Carmyle area of Glasgow. It is on the Whifflet Line, east of Glasgow Central railway station. Services are provided by ScotRail.
History
Carmyle station was opened in 1866 by the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway on their route between Coatbridge and Glasgow. The line had originally been commissioned in 1865, but for goods traffic only - passenger services started on 1 August the following year, with Carmyle opening on that date.Thirty years later it became a junction, upon the opening of the Glasgow Central Railway route from in 1897. This intersected the older route at the station, before continuing southwards to join the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway at a triangular junction between and via Westburn Viaduct. This route gave access to the low level platforms at and thence to the northwestern suburbs via and.
Both lines were operated from the outset by the Caledonian Railway, before passing to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at the 1923 Grouping. They then became part of the Scottish Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in January 1948.
The Glasgow Central Railway line and platforms closed to passengers on 5 October 1964 as a result of the Beeching Axe. The GCR route was subsequently dismantled and few traces of it remain today, but the line from Rutherglen was retained for freight traffic and periodic passenger diversions. It was then reopened as the Whifflet Line with financial backing from the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive in 1993, with Carmyle regaining its passenger service on 4 October that year by British Rail. It was the first station stop on the reopened line after leaving the main line station at Glasgow Central, as the main line platforms at had been closed following the reopening of the Argyle Line in 1979.
Electrification of the route through the station was completed in December 2014, which was not in time for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games as originally planned. The old Diesel Multiple Unit service from Central High Level has been replaced by EMUs running via Rutherglen and the Argyle Line. This has seen the restoration of the link to Central Low Level and beyond originally lost back in 1964.