Dalreoch railway station

Railway station in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland

Dalreoch railway station serves the west end of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line. The station is 16 miles 38 chains (26.5 km) northwest of Glasgow Queen Street (High Level), measured via Singer and Maryhill.^[3]

History

The junction at Dalreoch - the line diverging to the right becomes single track and heads to Balloch. The line to the left runs to Helensburgh Central, or onto the West Highland Line and to Oban, Fort William and Mallaig.

The Caledonian and Dumbartonshire [sic] Junction Railway (C&DJR) was opened in 1850,^[4] and Dalreoch railway station opened on 15 July 1850.^[5] The station became a junction with the opening of the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway (GD&HR) on 28 May 1858. The tunnel at the west end of the station, on the route to Helensburgh, was doubled in 1896 at a cost of £400,000 - the last section of the line to be doubled.^[6]

The line was electrified in 1960.^[6] Services on the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway route to Possil via Dalmuir Riverside ended in October 1964 when it fell victim to the Beeching Axe.^{[citation needed]}

Facilities

The station is equipped with a ticket office on platform 2, the latter adjacent to the car park and bike racks. Both platforms have benches, help points and shelters. The platforms are linked by a footbridge, so only platform 2 has step-free access.^[7]

Passenger volume

The statistics cover twelve-month periods that start in April.

Services

On weekdays and Saturdays, there is typically a half-hourly service westbound to Helensburgh Central and Balloch each, and half-hourly eastbound to either Edinburgh Waverley (via Glasgow Queen Street low-level, non-stop between Dalmuir and Hyndland) or Airdrie (calling at all stations via Singer). On Sundays, the service remains half-hourly, but two trains per hour serve all stations via Singer, while the other two serve all stations via Yoker, the latter heading to either Larkhall via Hamilton Central, or Motherwell via Whifflet (i.e., hourly trains on both routes).^[9]

References

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
3. Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. p. 83. ISBN 978 1909431 26 3.
4. Casserley 1968, p. 172
5. Butt 1995, p. 76
6. "Dalreoch Railway Station from The Gazetteer for Scotland". www.scottish-places.info. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
7. "National Rail Enquiries -". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
8. "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
9. eNRT May 2022 Edition, Table 206

Bibliography

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Casserley, H. C. (1968). Britain's Joint Lines. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0024-7.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.

External links

• Train times and station information for Dalreoch railway station from National Rail