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This is a two platform station with original sandstone single storey station building fitted with a newer canopy.

The signal box at Milngavie was located to the south of a public park's access bridge near the station on the east side of the track. (It was new in 1900, replacing a box on the north side of the same bridge and on the west side.) Near this point the single track becomes double approaching the terminus. To the west tracks diverged to the Ellangowan Paper Mill. This branch enclosed the turntable, the site of which is now a Kwik Fit garage. To the east of the station was the goods yard, now a large car park, and between the goods yard and the station was the single-road locomotive shed. A fence runs down the east side of the up platform (from the end of a stone wall which was part of the shed) to restrain passengers from falling onto the removed shed track. The station was originally three platforms. The third platform (removed in the 1980s) originally had a rounding loop. Two platforms remain today. The original station building also remains (plus 1899 canopy) with its flagstone floor. A new bypass road was brought through Milngavie from the old tram terminus to the station when the town received its pedestrian precinct. This has altered the fencing to the north of the station a little.

The original turntable was at the end of the branch, the north end of the station. Platforms 2 and 3 were added during the rebuilding which followed doubling of the line in 1900.

The station was built to the east of the site of the Allander Print Works.

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The station is at the east end of the original town.

Milngavie is the starting point of the West Highland Way long distance footpath.

Gavin's Mill

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