October 2015 the DIM Unit (Detection, Investigating and Monitoring) was moved from Springburn to Bishopbriggs.

The Lanarkshire Fire Area 1949

Establishment 2000

Establishment 2006

The Station Manager doesn't attend fires. The crews are split into four watches, Red, White, Blue and Green consisting of 1 Watch Manager A, 1 Crew Manager and 5 Firefighters working 2 day shifts, 2 night shifts and 4 days off.

When the new call signs were being implemented in the WEST SDA over a 7 week period beginning 31/8/2020 doing 1 LSO Area per week, Bishopbriggs was changed from M02 to E02.

Bishopbriggs will not be Day Manned with houses for firemen but will operate the 3 shift duty system and as a result the establishment will be 3 Station Officers, 2 Sub Officers, 2 Leading Firemen and 16 Firemen. There will also be a retained crew of 2 Sub Officers and 8 Firemen.
(Lanarkshire Fire Committee minutes. 1/12/1971.)
Bishopbriggs new station will be operational soon. (Lanarkshire Fire Committee minutes. 3/10/1973.)
The Station in Hilton road opened between the 24th and 31st of October 1973.
Lanarkshire Fire Brigade Order No.472 shows a lot of transfers to Bishopbriggs with effect 26/10/1973.
Station records show the welfare fund had 10 members till the 27/10/1973 and 24 members from 3/11/1973.
Janice Wilson (wife of Colin Wilson a L/Ff at Bishopbriggs) says the station opened on 17/10/1973.

Apparently in the days of the Lanarkshire Fire Brigade, Bishopbriggs station was known as the “House of Correction” as that was where you were posted if you did anything wrong as it was far out and difficult to get to. 

Bishopbriggs station isn't mentioned in The Lanarkshire Fire Area Administration Scheme Order, 1948. Bishopbriggs was was closed by the National Fire Service along with Kirkintilloch and fire cover was provided by Springburn and Kilsyth. Bishopbriggs was reopened by Lanarkshire Fire Brigade on 1/9/1949.

On the 1^st September, 1949, Bishopbriggs Fire Station was reopened and since that time they have attended 31 calls together with a further 24 calls made by a unit from this station into adjoining Fire Brigade areas.
(Lanarkshire Fire Brigade Annual Report. 1950 – 1951. Page 3.)

Bishopbriggs
A building at the rear of the existing fire station at Bishopbriggs was taken over in 1949 and adapted to provide accommodation for the whole-time and part-time firemen at this day-manned station. Accommodation for the housing of the fire appliances is totally inadequate and plans have been prepared for a new Fire Station but owing to the limitation on capital expenditure it has not been possible for any progress to be made.
(Firemaster’s Annual Report, 1954-55.)

In 1961 was a Day Manning  Station, Wholetime day shift, Retained at night.

Bishopbriggs Fire Station
Bishopbriggs is classified as a one pump day manning station, i.e., the appliance, a water tender, is manned during the daytime by a crew of whole-time firemen and, at night, by a crew, of retained firemen.
The authorised whole time establishment is a total of 12.
The retained complement is one L/fm. and 10 Firemen. The area of fire cover includes the small township of Bishopbriggs, extending to the borders of Glasgow in the south and the Central Fire Authority in the north. 1st attendance fire cover is given to the Springboig and Milton district of Glasgow and the Kirkintilloch area of Stirlingshire.
The Scottish Wire Rope Co. is one of the larger industries located here while there is provision for storage of considerable amounts of’ whisky in modern constructed bonded warehouses.
Bishopbriggs
The present system of day-manning at Bishopbriggs is considered a satisfactory method of providing fire cover in that area and as the negotiations are at present proceeding to acquire a site amounting to 2.05 acres of land at Hilton Road, Bishopbriggs, for the erection of a fire station a dwelling house, I recommend that this be proceeded with at the earliest opportunity.
(Lanarkshire Fire Brigade Joint Committee Minutes 1966, pages 47 to 59) 

Page 70                 7/9/1949
Bishopbriggs Fire Station
Re-establishment of a Wholetime Station at Bishopbriggs, County Council unable to make available the house at Bishopbriggs Police Station, which was formally used for fire service purposes.
Arrangements were made for a building at the rear of the Police Station which had previously been used for Civil Defence purposes.
Page 115               7/12/1949
Bishopbriggs Fire Station
Letter from Firemaster of date 28/11/1949 stating that Bishopbriggs Fire Station had now been in operation for eight weeks. Adaptations to the premises at the rear of the Police Station, which had previously been a Decontamination shed had been carried out by fire service personnel.
Page 57                 2/8/1967
From 11/8/1967                     48 hour week         to            48+8 Overtime.
                                               Existing Establishment        Proposed new Establishment

 Rutherglen                            47+1 WRA                            38+1WRA
Hamilton                                44                                            36+9 to man Snorkel (September 1967)
Coatbridge                            46                                            38+16 to man third appliance (November 1967)
Motherwell                            46                                            38
Lanark                                    26                                            23
East Kilbride                         26                                            23+16 to man second appliance (November 1967)
Bishopbriggs                        12                                            10           
                                                247+1WRA                           247+1 WRA
(Lanarkshire Fire Brigade Joint Committee Minutes)

<Photo> Pump, 12 men at rear of station.
This is a photograph of Bishopbriggs Fire Brigade taken in 1927. In 1915 a new fire station was opened in Kirkintilloch Road; previously it had been sited in Crowhill Road. The building was situated on the north side and also incorporated a new police station with housing for the constables and their families. The fire station consisted of a garage, washing space, testing tank and hose drying tower. When the building eventually became outmoded a new station was opened in Hilton Road, in 1973.
(BISHOPBRIGGS in old picture postcards by Christine Miller. Page 10)
There is also a photo of the station from the front on Page 73.

<Photo>
The new fire station being built in Bishopbriggs is due for completion in June. Here can be seen the building in its present stage of construction. (Steel girder framework)
(The Kirkintilloch Herald and Bishopbriggs Herald. Wednesday February 28, 1973 Page 5.)

Bishopbriggs' latest asset is due to be completed in mid October.
It is the new fire station in Hilton Road which was started last year despite outcries by residents in Meadowburn, whose back gardens face on to the new building.
Out of the estimated £93,000 cost of constructing the station only £49,260 was used.
Next month the original station, which is adjacent to the police station, in Kirkintilloch Road, is expected to be vacated, but as yet it has not been decided what the old building will be used for.
(The Kirkintilloch Herald and Bishopbriggs Herald. Wednesday September 5 1973 Page 5.)

<Photo> The Fire Station
The new Bishopbriggs Fire Station in Hilton Road opened last week, manned 24 hours a day by full time firemen. Compared with the old fire station at Bishopbriggs Cross, the new building is very luxurious and contains the latest equipment available for fire fighting purposes.
(The Kirkintilloch Herald and Bishopbriggs Herald. Wednesday October 31, 1973 Page 5.)