MadMac
Member
It's very difficult in terms of buildings on trackbed to extend directly from EK and the vast majority of demand is towards Glasgow so no real prospect of this.
Some readers may recall a proposal in the 1980s to build a new station at Kirktonholme (about halfway between Hairmyres and the terminus) and to swing the line round into the town centre. I think the Development Corporation was still in existence at the time and didn’t like the numbers they got for the town centre part!