Singer railway station

Singer railway station is a two-platformed manned station serving Clydebank town centre, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is located on the Argyle Line, 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Glasgow Central and the North Clyde Line, 13 km (8½ miles) west of Glasgow Queen Street.

Passenger services are provided by First ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.

History

Singer station took its name from the huge Singer sewing machine factory that it was built to serve.^[1][2][3] The station is located on a section of track that was realigned to make space for the factory. In addition to this station (still in use today), the original station - titled Singer Works, previously called Kilbowie Road (Old), once boasted six bay platforms for the many workers' trains that ran there. The bay platforms, and indeed the factory, have long since gone.^[3][4]

Services

Singer is served by trains on the half-hourly, all day Monday to Saturdays, on both the Argyle and North Clyde lines. This means Monday to Saturday there is a train every 15 minutes to central Glasgow.

On Sundays, there is a half-hourly service to Glasgow Queen Street served by trains on the North Clyde Line.

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 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. 
• Yonge, John (May 1987). Gerald Jacobs. ed. British Rail Track Diagams - Book 1: ScotRail (1st edition ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. ISBN 0-9006-0948-6. 
• Yonge, John (February 1993). Gerald Jacobs. ed. Railway Track Diagams - Book 1: Scotland and the Isle of Man (2nd edition ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. ISBN 0-9006-0995-8. 
• Yonge, John (April 1996). Gerald Jacobs. ed. Railway Track Diagams - Book 1: Scotland and the Isle of Man (3rd edition ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. ISBN 1-8983-1919-7. 
• Yonge, John (2007). Gerald Jacobs. ed. Railway Track Diagams - Book 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (Quail Track Plans) (fifth edition ed.). Bradford on Avon: "Trackmaps (formerly Quail Map Co)". http://www.trackmaps.co.uk. . ISBN 978-0-9549866-3-6. OCLC 79435248. 

• McIntosh Gray, Alastair and Moffat, William (1989). A History of Scotland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-1991-7063-0.

External links

• RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway