Trains to Milngavie - Station Details and further Information on Milngavie Train Services
Milngavie train station serves the town of Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, near Glasgow in Scotland. The station is 8½ miles north west of Glasgow Central on the Argyle Line and 9 miles north west of Glasgow Queen Street on the North Clyde Line.
Passenger services are operated by First ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. Trains to Glasgow operate on a regular schedule, with a departure once every 15 minutes on weekdays. Two trains per hour go via Glasgow Central on the Argyle Line, while the other two travel via Queen Street on the North Clyde Line. In the evenings and on Sundays a half-hourly service operates via Glasgow Central.
Its principal purpose today is as a commuter station for people working in Glasgow city Centre. The station itself is a category B listed building. Milngavie station is generally well kept and has had a history of winning many awards and commendations for the quality of the flower baskets and tubs in station garden competitions.
The station is the usual access point for the 95-mile long West Highland Way long distance footpath which officially starts in Milngavie town centre, marked by a granite obelisk. The first few hundred yards of the way follow the line of short spur of the railway originally built to serve the Ellangowan Paper Mills.
Milngavie station has a ticket office, staff facilities, and disabled access. There is no taxi rank, but there is a regular bus service operating from the bus stop outside the station entrance. A pedestrian underpass links the station to the town centre, which is also pedestrianised, and the southern end of the West Highland Way long Distance Route to Fort William. |