A station was proposed for this location in 1875 (as part of Caledonian Railway’s Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway) in response to the rapid suburban development of this area of south Glasgow. Strathbungo Station opened in December 1877 with a service of 21 trains daily (Renfrewshire Independent, 1877).
The station is shown on John Bartholomew’s Plan of Glasgow (1882) and in more detail on the 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey Glasgow Town Plan (revised, 1896).
The station closed to passengers in 1962, after which the platform buildings and platform access were dismantled. The former booking office (on the bridge over the railway line) was retained and was used as a local convenience store between 1967 and 2017. The building is currently unoccupied (2020).