[2] Services ran to most parts of the G&SWR system, including Ayr, Dumfries, Carlisle, Kilmarnock and Stranraer.
It was the site of a rail crash in 1903 in which 16 passengers were killed and 64 injured when a train overran the buffers.
After the nationalisation of the United Kingdom rail network, the station was run by British Railways.
[5] The clock that was suspended from the roof of the station was saved from destruction and is now on display in Cumbernauld Town Centre.
[8] The red sandstone ticket hall which stands in St Enoch Square immediately west of the shopping centre is not part of the former rail station, but is the former ticket hall for the adjacent St Enoch subway station on the Glasgow Subway.