Dalmuir railway station

Dalmuir railway station is a railway station serving the Dalmuir area of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is a large, five platform interchange between the Argyle Line, North Clyde Line and West Highland Line.

Dalmuir
Scottish Gaelic: An Dail Mhòr[1]
The Yoker route platforms
Location
Place	Dalmuir
Local authority	West Dunbartonshire
Coordinates	55.9120°N 4.4270°W / 55.9120; -4.4270
Grid reference	NS484714
Operations
Station code	DMR
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	5
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.900 million
– Interchange	61,456
2015/16	0.907 million
– Interchange	65,859
2016/17	0.961 million
– Interchange	0.120 million
2017/18	0.921 million
– Interchange	42,309
2018/19	0.923 million
– Interchange	40,724
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway & Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
1858	original station opened
1897	new station opened
1952	renamed Dalmuir Park
1973	reverted to Dalmuir
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dalmuir from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station is very close to the Dalmuir drop lock on the Forth and Clyde Canal.

History

The original two platform station located on Park Road, was the first stop after Maryhill Park on the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway opened in May 1858.[2] The station was relocated to its current location in 1897 by the North British Railway and enlarged to four platforms to accommodate the extension of the Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway from Clydebank - the new line met the older one via Drumchapel immediately west of the original platforms at Dalmuir Park Junction after passing beneath the former GD&HR line a few yards to the east.[3] The station was known as Dalmuir Park between 1952 and 1973[4] A fifth platform was added as part of the Argyle Line expansion in 1979.

Station layout

There are four through platforms, two on the Yoker branch & two on the Singer branch along with a terminal bay platform from the Yoker branch constructed as part of the Argyle Line improvement works in 1979 under British Rail. Trains terminating from the Singer branch reverse in a turnback siding to the west of the station just past the junction. The two inner platforms link up at the north end of the station, where there were formerly two footbridges - one spanning each pair of lines. However these were dismantled in 2010 after being replaced by a new, fully disability-accessible bridge fitted with three lifts that links all five platforms. The other station buildings are Portakabin-type structures erected in the early 1980s to replace the original stone ones.

Services

View from Duntocher Road

Passenger services are provided by Abellio ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper. As befits a junction station with two alternative routes to the city and access to both main stations there (Glasgow Queen Street Low Level and Glasgow Central (Low Level)) there are a wide range of destinations available. Northbound, there are 2 trains per hour each to both Balloch and Helensburgh Central via Dumbarton Central, plus a further 2tph that terminate at the latter. Generally services to Helensburgh & Balloch are nonstop to Dumbarton East, with the intermediate stations served by the Dumbarton Central terminating trains.

South/eastbound services are 2tph each to Cumbernauld via Yoker, Airdrie via Singer and Edinburgh Waverley (since December 2010), all via Queen Street LL; and 2tph each to Larkhall via Singer and Whifflet via Yoker (of which 1tph extends to Motherwell), all via Central LL and the Argyle Line. Arrivals from the Argyle line however, are from Motherwell via Hamilton and Yoker (of which 1tph is from Cumbernauld via Coatbridge Central) and from Whifflet via Carmyle and Singer (of which 1tph is from Motherwell) rather than Larkhall. Following a major timetable recast in December 2014, through workings from here over the Argyle Line no longer directly serve stations via Bellshill to Lanark as they did previously, though connections are available by changing at Cambuslang.

On Sundays there is a simplified pattern in operation - Helensburgh to Edinburgh via Singer and Queen St, and Balloch via Yoker and Central LL to either Larkhall or Motherwell via Whifflet (hourly by each route).[5]

In addition the station is the first (or last) stop for West Highland Line services from Queen Street High Level to Oban and Mallaig via Fort William however there is one train per day from Oban which doesn't call here and passes through.[6] The Highland Sleeper service also calls in each direction daily (except Saturday nights southbound and Sunday mornings northbound), giving the station a direct link to/from London Euston via the West Coast Main Line.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Singer		Abellio ScotRail Argyle Line		Terminus
Clydebank
Singer		Abellio ScotRail North Clyde Line		Kilpatrick
Clydebank
Glasgow Queen Street (High Level)		Abellio ScotRail West Highland Line		Dumbarton Central
Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level)		Caledonian Sleeper Highland Caledonian Sleeper		Dumbarton Central
	Historical railways
Singer Line and station open		North British Railway Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway		Kilpatrick Line and station open
Singer Works Line partially open; station closed
Clydebank Line and station open		North British Railway Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway		Terminus

Notes

1. Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
2. "Railscot - Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway"Railscot; Retrieved 11 April 2016
3. "Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway"Railscot Retrieved 11 April 2016
4. http://www.nbrstudygroup.co.uk/nbr/pdfs/station_list.pdf
5. GB NRT May 2016, Tables 225 & 226
6. GB NRT May 2016, Table 227 (Network Rail)

References

• Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
• Butt, R. V. J. (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.
• 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.
• RAILSCOT on the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
• RAILSCOT on the Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway

External links

• Video footage of Dalmuir railway station.