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This was a two platform terminus. This was the original terminus of the line from Yoker Junction (now Hyndland East Junction) before it was extended west via Clydebank Central to Dalmuir. The station was left as the terminus of a short branch.

When opened, the station was perpendicular to the Forth and Cart Canal and was built to serve the Clydebank Shipyard which had recently opened, changing the name of the district from Barns O' Clyde. A passenger service ran here from Govan, from where the shipyard had relocated, using the Govan Ferry and passenger trains from Partickhill.

The station had a relatively narrow island platform and was located just south of the line which bypassed it. The station house was a two storey building, extended at the south end by a single storey office. There were carriage sidings to either side of the platform loops. To the south of the station were goods lines, with a yard of several sidings, which ran west to the John Brown Ship Yard. Clydebank East Shed was located by the station, at its east end.

The station site was cleared after closure, around 1969, becoming playing fields for a school.

It was just to the north of West Barns of Clyde.

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