Dalreoch railway station facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Dalreoch Scottish Gaelic: An Dail Riabhach
Location	Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire Scotland
Coordinates	55°56′50″N 4°34′37″W / 55.9472°N 4.5770°W / 55.9472; -4.5770
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	DLR
Fare zone	D2
History
Original company	Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Dumbarton and Balloch Railway
Post-grouping	Dumbarton and Balloch Railway
Key dates
15 July 1850	Station opened
28 May 1858	Helensburgh line opened
Traffic
Passengers (2017/18)	0.295 million
Passengers (2018/19)	0.292 million
Passengers (2019/20)	0.279 million
Passengers (2020/21)	42,802
Passengers (2021/22)	0.133 million

Dalreoch railway station serves the west end of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line. The station is 16 miles 38 chains (26.5 km) northwest of Glasgow Queen Street (High Level), measured via Singer and Maryhill.

History

The junction at Dalreoch - the line diverging to the right becomes single track and heads to Balloch. The line to the left runs to Helensburgh Central, or onto the West Highland Line and to Oban, Fort William and Mallaig.

The Caledonian and Dumbartonshire [sic] Junction Railway (C&DJR) was opened in 1850, and Dalreoch railway station opened on 15 July 1850. The station became a junction with the opening of the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway (GD&HR) on 28 May 1858. The tunnel at the west end of the station, on the route to Helensburgh, was doubled in 1896 at a cost of £400,000 - the last section of the line to be doubled.

The line was electrified in 1960. Services on the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway route to Possil via Dalmuir Riverside ended in October 1964 when it fell victim to the Beeching Axe.

Facilities

The station is equipped with a ticket office on platform 2, the latter adjacent to the car park and bike racks. Both platforms have benches, help points and shelters. The platforms are linked by a footbridge, so only platform 2 has step-free access.

Passenger volume

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

On weekdays & Saturdays, there is a typically half-hourly service westbound to Helensburgh Central and Balloch each, and half-hourly eastbound to either Edinburgh Waverley (via Glasgow Queen Street low-level, non-stop between Dalmuir and Hyndland) or Airdrie (calling at all stations via Singer). On Sundays, the service remains half-hourly, but two trains per hour serve all stations via Singer, while the other two serve all stations via Yoker, the latter heading to either Larkhall via Hamilton Central, or Motherwell via Whifflet (i.e., hourly trains on both routes).

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dumbarton Central		{{{route1}}}		Cardross
		{{{route2}}}		Renton
Historical railways
continuing line		North British Railway Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway		Cardross Line and station open
Dumbarton Central Line and station open		CR & NBR Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway		Renton Line and station open