Kilpatrick railway station

For the station on the former Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway see Old Kilpatrick railway station.

Kilpatrick railway station serves the village of 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.

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. After this crime, the station has been unmanned until the present day.

Services

2006/07

From Kilpatrick, there is a half-hourly service to Glasgow Queen Street usually to Airdrie railway station, after 6pm the trains run to Springburn 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.

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 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.