Drumchapel railway station

Drumchapel railway station serves the Drumchapel, Blairdardie and Old Drumchapel areas of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is served by trains on the Argyle Line and North Clyde Line.

Drumchapel
Scottish Gaelic: Druim a' Chaibeil[1]
Drumchapel railway station, with a train departing the westbound platform
Location
Place	Drumchapel
Local authority	Glasgow
Coordinates	55.9047°N 4.3630°W / 55.9047; -4.3630
Grid reference	NS523704
Operations
Station code	DMC
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	0.384 million
2015/16	0.385 million
2016/17	0.360 million
2017/18	0.344 million
2018/19	0.337 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Drumchapel from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station is situated on Garscadden Road. It has a car park facility as well as a bus terminus.

Facilities

The station has a small car park with an assortment of spaces (including a car parking block) and an unmanned ticket office with usual operating hours.[2]

Services

On Mondays-Saturdays, trains between Balloch & Airdrie stop each way every 30 minutes. In addition to these North Clyde Line services, there are two Argyle Line trains per hour between Dalmuir and Central Low Level – these come from Motherwell or Whifflet northbound but run southbound to Larkhall. Sundays see a half-hourly service to Edinburgh via Airdrie and to Helensburgh Central.[3]

The station is situated on the suburban Glasgow portion of the West Highland Way Line. However, none of these services stop here.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Westerton		Abellio ScotRail Argyle Line		Drumry
Westerton		Abellio ScotRail North Clyde Line		Drumry

References

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. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/DMC.aspx
3. GB eNRT 2016 Edition, Table 226

Sources

• 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.