Kilpatrick railway station

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Kilpatrick
Location
Place Old Kilpatrick
Local authority West Dunbartonshire
Operations
Managed by First ScotRail
Station code KPT
Platforms in use 2
Annual Passenger Usage
2002/03 * 56,000
2004/05 ** 63,977
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
List of Strathclyde stations:
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Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kilpatrick.
Portal:Kilpatrick railway station
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For the station on the former Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway see Old Kilpatrick railway station.

Kilpatrick railway station serves the village Old Kilpatrick in the West Dunbartonshire region of Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the North Clyde Line, 18 km (11½ miles) west of Glasgow and the Argyle Line on Sundays.

Part of the station sits under the North end of the Erskine Bridge with Lusset Park overlooking the station from above and access to Station Road is from the South side (Westbound platform). The Lusset Glen is also accessible from the westbound platform.

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[edit] Facilities

The station is a split, two-platform station with ramp access and a small ticket office. There is no auto-announcement system at present. In September 1989, an armed robbery took place and the two men held up the member of staff with double barreled shotguns.[citation needed] After this crime, the station has been unmanned till the present day.[citation needed]

[edit] Services

[edit] 2006/07

From Kilpatrick, there is a half-hourly service to Glasgow Queen Street usually to Airdrie railway station. On Sundays the service uses the Argyle Line to Motherwell on the Argyle Line on Sundays.

Westbound there is a half-hourly daily service to Balloch.

[edit] External links

  Preceding station     National Rail     Following station  
Dalmuir   First ScotRail

North Clyde Line

  Bowling
Historical Railways
Dalmuir
Line and station open
  Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway   Bowling
Line and station open