Kilpatrick railway station

Kilpatrick Scottish Gaelic: Cill Phàdraig[1]
Kilpatrick railway station, looking southeast towards Dalmuir. The Erskine Bridge can be seen overhead.
Location	Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire Scotland
Coordinates	55°55′26″N 4°27′09″W / 55.9239°N 4.4525°W / 55.9239; -4.4525Coordinates: 55°55′26″N 4°27′09″W / 55.9239°N 4.4525°W / 55.9239; -4.4525
Grid reference	NS468728
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KPT
Passengers
2015/16	0.135 million
2016/17	0.129 million
2017/18	0.125 million
2018/19	0.104 million
2019/20	0.104 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Kilpatrick railway station serves the village of Old Kilpatrick in the West Dunbartonshire region of Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the North Clyde Line, 111⁄2 miles (18 km) west of Glasgow and the Argyle Line on Sundays.

Part of the station sits under the northern end of the Erskine Bridge with Lusset Park overlooking the station from above. Access to Station Road is from the south side on the 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.^{[citation needed]} After this crime, the station has been unmanned until the present day.^{[citation needed]} A woman was also killed in an apparent suicide attempt; she was struck by a train in October 2011 at the station.^[2]

Services[]

2006/07[]

From Kilpatrick, there is a half-hourly service to Glasgow Queen Street usually to Airdrie. After 18:00, the trains run to Springburn. On Sundays the service uses the Argyle Line to Motherwell on Sundays.

Westbound there is a half-hourly daily service to Balloch.

2016[]

The service remains half hourly in the May 2016 timetable but on weekdays and Saturdays, westbound trains now end at Dumbarton Central and eastbound trains run to Cumbernauld via Clydebank. Sunday services run half-hourly to Balloch and to Glasgow Central Low Level (and thence alternately to Motherwell via Whifflet and to Larkhall).^[3]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dalmuir		Abellio ScotRail North Clyde Line		Bowling
	Historical railways
Dalmuir Line and station open		Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway		Bowling Line and station open

References[]

Sources[]

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• 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 978-1-85260-508-7. 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.

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