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

Passenger Volume at Dalreoch[8]
2002–03 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23
Entries and exits 316,146 303,851 321,643 313,186 318,398 331,162 315,876 337,210 322,230 318,230 391,096 390,800 397,382 364,594 294,780 291,698 278,512 42,802 132,936 179,500

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

Services

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour Mondays to Saturdays is:[9][10]

The typical service on Sundays is:

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Dumbarton Central   ScotRail
North Clyde Line
   Cardross
    Renton
  Historical railways  
continuing line   North British Railway
Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
   Cardross
Line and station open
Dumbarton Central
Line and station open 		  CR & NBR
Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway
   Renton
Line and station open

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. ^ a b "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
  10. ^ eNRT May 2022 Edition, Table 206

Bibliography

Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalreoch_railway_station
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