Westerton railway station

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Westerton
Location
Place	Bearsden
Local authority	East Dunbartonshire
Operations
Station code	WES
Managed by	First ScotRail
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.533 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
1913	Opened
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Westerton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Westerton railway station is a railway station that serves the Westerton district in the town of Bearsden near Glasgow, Scotland.

The station is served by First ScotRail as part of the SPT network. It is located on the Argyle Line 8 km (5 miles) weat of Glasgow Central and the North Clyde Line 7 km (4¼ miles) west of Glasgow Queen Street. Also overnight Caledonian Sleeper services call at this station.

The station is near to the Forth and Clyde Canal and the boundary between East Dunbartonshire and the city of Glasgow.

[edit] 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 on 21 October 1990 under a subsequent resignalling scheme that saw control of the whole North Clyde Line transferred to Yoker Signalling Centre.

[edit] Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes eight trains per hour go westbound. Four towards Glasgow Queen Street and beyond (Airdrie) on the North Clyde Line and four towards Glasgow Central and beyond (Motherwell) on the Argyle Line. Westboound trains head towards Milngavie, Dalmuir and Balloch.

Evenings and Sundays a there are regular trains towards Glasgow eastbound and Milngavie, Balloch or Helensburgh westbound

Westerton is also served by the overnight First ScotRail Sleeper service to and from Fort William and London Euston (Sundays-Fridays only).

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Anniesland		First ScotRail  Argyle Line   North Clyde Line		Drumchapel
		First ScotRail  Argyle Line   North Clyde Line		Bearsden
Edinburgh Waverley		First ScotRail Highland Caledonian Sleeper (The Deerstalker)		Dalmuir

[edit] 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, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 

• Jowett, Alan (1989). Jowett's railway atlas of Great Britain and Ireland : from pre-grouping to the present day, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.