Bargeddie
Station 107Rudy visited Bargeddie on
Friday, 11th March 2022
and caught the 13:55 to Motherwell
Bargeddie Station
Bargeddie, is a 1990s “replacement” station built on the site of an older station. “Drumpark” station was opened when the first housing development was built here in the 1930s. Despite more housing being added the station was closed in 1964 and the community ignored by the railway until Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and British Rail opened Bargeddie in 1993. Prior to 2020 it saw more than 100,000 yearly passengers.
It’s not often we turn up at a station twenty minutes before our train time but we’d decided against the planned picnic spots on our walk past Kirkwood Viaduct so our piece break was had at the station. Perfect time to continue our “Rudy looking the wrong way for his train” series of photos – maybe it’s because he was born in Spain and his genetics expect a right-hand railway?
The railway station is on the southern side of Bargeddie which has grown from a single new housing estate built in the 1930s into part of the Greater Glasgow sprawl reaching ever further in the decades since the 1950s.
Bargeddie is twenty minutes by train from Glasgow Central on trains towards Whifflet or Motherwell. There is ramp access to both platforms.
This is an unstaffed station with no facilities other than waiting shelters.