Westerton railway station

Westerton railway station is a railway station that serves the Westerton district in the town of Bearsden, Scotland.

Westerton
Scottish Gaelic: Am Baile Siar[1]
Location
PlaceBearsden
Local authorityEast Dunbartonshire
Coordinates55.9048°N 4.3351°W / 55.9048; -4.3351
Grid referenceNS541704
Operations
Station codeWES
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.784 million
2015/16 0.795 million
2016/17 0.794 million
2017/18 0.783 million
2018/19 0.791 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTESPT
History
Pre-groupingNorth British Railway
Post-groupingLNER
1 September 1913Opened[2]
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Westerton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station is served by Abellio ScotRail as part of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network. It is located on the Argyle Line, 5 miles (8 km) west of Glasgow Central and the North Clyde Line, 4.3 miles (7 km) west of Glasgow Queen Street.

The station lies very close to the Forth and Clyde Canal and the boundary between East Dunbartonshire and the city of Glasgow.

Signalling

Westerton signal box, which was situated in the vee of the junction immediately to the west of the station, opened in 1900 as "Milngavie Junction". Renamed "Westerton" on 10 May 1959, the box was provided with a new frame of 20 levers and took over control of Knightswood North Junction (about a quarter mile east of the station). Colour light signals replaced the semaphores. Westerton signal box closed by British Rail on 21 October 1990 under a subsequent resignalling scheme that saw control of the whole North Clyde Line transferred to Yoker Signalling Centre.

Services
A Class 334 at Westerton station

Monday to Saturday daytimes eight trains per hour go southeastbound: four towards Glasgow Queen Street of which 2 go to Airdrie and 2 go to Edinburgh Waverley via Bathgate (limited stop) on the North Clyde Line; and four via Glasgow Central, of which 2 go to Larkhall via Hamilton Central and 2 go to Whifflet (every other train extending to Motherwell) on the Argyle Line. Northwestbound trains head towards Milngavie (4tph) and Dalmuir (4tph, 2 are from the North Clyde line and go to Balloch).[3]

On Monday-Saturday evenings the Milngavie-Edinburgh Waverley service ceases to operate, other routes continue to run. Sundays there are 2tph between Helensburgh Central and Edinburgh Waverley and 2tph between Milngavie and Motherwell via Hamilton.

Prior to 19 September 2014, Westerton was also served by the overnight Caledonian Sleeper service between Fort William and London Euston running on Sunday-Friday nights (to allow Glasgow-bound passengers to change onto a connecting service, as the sleeper used a route avoiding the city centre). From 21 September 2014 the sleeper service was re-routed to call instead at Queen Street Low Level and so the stop was removed from the timetable.[4]

Facilities

The station has adjacent parking with 110 spaces and 14 sheltered bicycle stands. The station has a staffed ticked office with a public toilet on platform 1 and sheltered seating on platform 2.[5] The station has a cross platform bridge with lift access which began production in June 2017[6] and became operational in 2018.[7]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Anniesland   Abellio ScotRail
Argyle Line
   Drumchapel
    Bearsden
Anniesland   Abellio ScotRail
North Clyde Line
   Drumchapel
    Bearsden
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References

Notes
  1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Butt (1995),page 245
  3. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Tables 225 & 226
  4. GB eNRT December 2014 Edition, Table 227
  5. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/WES/details.html
  6. https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/westerton-station-accessibility-improvements-in-site#
  7. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/feeds/footbridge-opening-at-westerton-is-step-towards-improved-accessibility/

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.
  • 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.
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