Ashfield railway station (Scotland)

Ashfield railway station is a railway station serving the Milton and Parkhouse areas of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the Maryhill Line, 2 ¹⁄₂ miles (4 km) north of Glasgow Queen Street, a short distance west of Cowlairs North Junction. It has two side platforms. Services are provided by Abellio ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT).

Ashfield
Scottish Gaelic: Achadh an Uinnsinn[1]
Ashfield railway station, looking towards Glasgow Queen Street
Location
Place	Milton
Local authority	Glasgow
Coordinates	55.8888°N 4.2484°W / 55.8888; -4.2484
Grid reference	NS595684
Operations
Station code	ASF
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	80,470
2015/16	76,500
2016/17	50,340
2017/18	83,486
2018/19	84,458
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	British Rail
6 December 1993	Station 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 Ashfield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

Opened in 1993 under British Rail management during the Sectorisation era introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail came into effect on 1 April 1994. It was one of five new stations to be opened as part of the Maryhill Line project, with three of them (including this one) on new sites. The line through the station is however a lot older, being opened back in 1858 by the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway and has been used since the latter end of the 19th century by West Highland Line passenger and freight trains to reach the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway main line at Cowlairs and hence Queen Street High Level.

Services

Monday to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service eastbound to Glasgow Queen Street and westbound to Anniesland, where connections are available for North Clyde Line services.[2]

Since 18 May 2014, a limited hourly Sunday service now operates on this line – trains call between 09:30 and 19:00.

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. Table 232 National Rail timetable, May 2016

References

• 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 (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Glasgow Queen Street		Abellio ScotRail Maryhill Line		Possilpark & Parkhouse