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Southern Scotland Railway Statistics

There are fifty-six railway stations in Southern Scotland.

Busiest Stations

The ten Busiest Stations

  1. 1 Rutherglen 812,876
  2. 2 Cambuslang 767,364
  3. 3 East Kilbride 756,936
  4. 4 Kilwinning 709,802
  5. 5 Uddingston 701,672
  6. 6 Ayr 684,190
  7. 7 Hamilton Central 648,720
  8. 8 Hamilton West 630,746
  9. 9 Irvine 628,382
  10. 10 Newton 546,872

Least Used Stations

The ten Least Used Stations

  1. 1 Barrhill 3,874
  2. 2 Ardrossan Town 17,304
  3. 3 Kirkconnel 19,350
  4. 4 Thorntonhall 19,642
  5. 5 Reston 21,130
  6. 6 New Cumnock 22,192
  7. 7 Sanquhar 25,440
  8. 8 Carstairs 28,352
  9. 9 Stranraer 31,866
  10. 10 Maybole 35,930

Passenger Numbers

Passenger numbers for Maybole peaked during 2017-18 with 19,832,686 estimated passengers.

Usage dropped to 13% during the 2020-21 travel lockdowns and recovered to 0% by 2024.

Passenger Estimates for Maybole table
YearPassenger Numbers
1997-989,442,721
1998-9910,624,415
1999-0010,921,221
2000-0110,663,837
2001-0210,273,180
2002-0310,395,429
2003-04 
2004-0511,936,477
2005-0613,118,519
2006-0713,934,864
2007-0814,692,549
2008-0916,162,318
2009-1015,976,796
2010-1116,838,230
2011-1217,487,838
2012-1318,019,934
2013-1418,022,791
2014-1518,779,546
2015-1618,779,546
2016-1719,750,878
2017-1819,832,686
2018-1919,026,158
2019-2018,584,810
2020-212,499,184
2021-229,093,446
2022-2311,753,198
2023-24