Drumry_railway_station

Drumry railway station

Drumry railway station

Railway station in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland


Drumry railway station serves the Drumry and Linnvale area of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The railway station is managed by ScotRail and is served by trains on the Argyle Line and North Clyde Line. It is situated between Singer to the west and Drumchapel to the east, 8 miles 10 chains (13.1 km) from Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Maryhill. [4]

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History

Drumry station was opened on 6 April 1953 to serve two of the new housing schemes that were built post World War II on the northern edges of the Burgh of Clydebank,[5][3] nearly a century after the opening of the line itself through the town.[6]

Facilities

The station seen in 2012

The station has a small car park and has cycle stands. It also has a staffed ticket office and a ticket machine, with help points, shelters and benches.[7][8]

Work to replace the platform surfaces by Network Rail was carried out between January and June 2022.[9][10]

Passenger volume

More information 2002–03, 2004–05 ...

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

On Mondays-Saturdays, trains between Balloch and 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 Larkhall. On Sundays, there is a half-hourly service to Edinburgh via Airdrie and to Helensburgh Central.[12]

More information Preceding station, National Rail ...

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.
  2. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  3. Quick 2022, p. 169.
  4. Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. p. 137. ISBN 978 1909431 26 3.
  5. "Drumry Railway Station from The Gazetteer for Scotland". www.scottish-places.info. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  6. "The Railway Line". Drumchapel Heritage Group. 14 June 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  7. "Drumry station map". National Rail. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  8. "Drumry Station platform works set to begin next month". Network Rail Media Centre. 23 December 2021. Archived from the original on 23 December 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  9. "Platforms at Drumry station platform to be replaced next month". RailAdvent. 1 January 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  10. "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2023.

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