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This is a two platform station with the modified former main station building and a modern waiting room both on the Glasgow bound platform.

To the west of Bearsden station the railway is single track from Milngavie Junction. Near to the station it becomes double. A long loop exists running from the west end of Bearsden station to the east end of Hillfoot station. Bearsden station originally had a signal box on the north side of the track before the station and a goods yard (for coal handling mostly) on the right. The points for the sidings faced west to Westerton.

The goods yard is now a car park (signal box closed in 1950, replaced with a ground frame released from Hillfoot). The original building was modified to become a restaurant in 1988. The down platform building was demolished several years previously. The up platform is the original single track platform. There was no loop as originally built. The line was doubled in 1900 and signal box opened. The road bridge to the east of the station (and much of the road from Anniesland to Bearsden Cross) was built to take trams, but a tramline was never opened. A footpath runs alongside the railway between Bearsden and Hillfoot locally referred to as the Jubilee Path.

The station's name was adopted for the town of New Kilpatrick after the North British Railway successfully encouraged house building in the vicinity (a system which had previously proven itself in Bishopbriggs). The station name came from a house in the locality (which was demolished to make way for the station). It was located in the car park to the west of the station building.

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The station is south of Bearsden Cross and the Bearsden Bath House. Bearsden Bath House

The station building is a pub and restaurant. The station building is currently Craft Pubs Bearsden .

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