 There is a small cairn located at the drop-off zone of the station car park erected by "Pride Of Place" community environmental programme in memory of the workers of the large Hallside Steelworks which was located immediately to the south of the station.Another similar memorial cairn organised by "Pride Of Place" is on Gilbertfield Road, Cambuslang, commemorating the soldiers from the area who marched the route to Newton station in order to go off to war.British Railways undertook major railway electrification in the Greater Glasgow Area in the 1960s which was continued by British Rail with the West Coast Main Line into the 1970s.