Bowling (L&D) railway station

Bowling

Structure below platform

Location

Place

Bowling

Area

West Dunbartonshire

Operations

Original company

Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway

Pre-grouping

Caledonian Railway

Post-grouping

LMS

Platforms

History

1 October 1896^[1]

Opened

1 January 1917^[1]

Closed

1919^[1]

Reopened

5 February 1951^[1]

Closed

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For the station on the former Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway / Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway, now part of the North Clyde Line see Bowling railway station.

Bowling railway station was a railway station located in the village of Bowling, Scotland, on the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway.

Bowling station was closed when this section of the L&DR was abandoned in 1960 (the parallel GH&DR being retained and electrified as part of the North Clyde electrification scheme). The trackbed through Bowling now forms a footpath and cycleway.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Old Kilpatrick Line and station closed		Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway		Dumbarton East Station open; line partially open

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Butt 1995, p. 41.

Sources

Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063.
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 1-8526-0508-1. 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
RAILSCOT on the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway