Dalreoch railway station

Dalreoch railway station serves the west end of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line. The station is 16 miles (26 km) west of Glasgow Queen Street.

Dalreoch
Scottish Gaelic: An Dail Riabhach[1]
Location
PlaceDumbarton
Local authorityWest Dunbartonshire
Coordinates55.9472°N 4.5770°W / 55.9472; -4.5770
Grid referenceNS391757
Operations
Station codeDLR
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.391 million
2015/16 0.397 million
2016/17 0.365 million
2017/18 0.295 million
2018/19 0.292 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTESPT
ZoneD2
History
Original companyCaledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway
Pre-groupingDumbarton and Balloch Railway
Post-groupingDumbarton and Balloch Railway
15 July 1850Station opened
28 May 1858Helensburgh line opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dalreoch from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History
A 1903 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing the whole of the Dumbarton and Balloch Railway, including Dalreoch railway station (centre bottom)

The Caledonian and Dumbartonshire [sic] Junction Railway (C&DJR) was opened in 1850,[2] and Dalreoch railway station opened on 15 July 1850.[3] The station became a junction with the opening of the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway (GD&HR) on 28 May 1858.

Although the GD&HR, after successive amalgamations, became part of the North British Railway (NBR) and so part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at the 1923 Grouping, the C&DJR was purchased jointly by the NBR, the Caledonian Railway and the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire [sic] Railway (L&DR). Renamed the Dumbarton and Balloch Railway, it remained a joint line at the 1923 Grouping, but its owners were now the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and the LNER.[2] Services on the L&DR to Possil via Dalmuir Riverside ended in October 1964 when it fell victim to the Beeching Axe.

Facilities

The station has a car park (107 spaces) and a ticket staffed in operating hours from Monday to Saturday.[4]

Services

From Dalreoch daily four trains per hour head southeastbound towards Dalmuir, Glasgow Queen Street and Airdrie; two are limited stop and continue through to Bathgate and Edinburgh Waverley. Westbound there is a half-hourly service to both Balloch and Helensburgh Central.[5]

On Sundays the frequency remains the same on both lines, but the services on the Balloch line run via the Argyle Line to Motherwell via Whifflet and to Larkhall via Hamilton.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Dumbarton Central   Abellio 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
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References

Notes
  1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Casserley 1968, p. 172
  3. Butt 1995, p. 76
  4. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/dlr/details.html
  5. GB eNRT 2015-16 Edition, Table 226 (Network Rail)

Sources
  • Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • RAILSCOT on the Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway
  • RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
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