Drumchapel railway station
Drumchapel railway station serves the Drumchapel, Blairdardie and Old Drumchapel areas of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is served by trains on the Argyle Line and North Clyde Line.
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 Drumchapel railway station, with a train departing the westbound platform | |
| Location | Drumchapel, Glasgow Scotland |
| Coordinates | 55.9047°N 4.3630°W |
| Grid reference | NS523704 |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Transit authority | SPT |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | DMC |
| Passengers | |
| 2015/16 |  0.385 million |
| 2016/17 |  0.360 million |
| 2017/18 | 0.344 million |
| 2018/19 | 0.337 million |
| 2019/20 | 0.324 million |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
The station is situated on Garscadden Road. It has a car park facility as well as a bus terminus.
Facilities
The station has a small car park with an assortment of spaces (including a car parking block) and an unmanned ticket office with usual operating hours.[2]
Services
On Mondays-Saturdays, trains between Balloch & Airdrie stop each way every 30 minutes. In addition to these North Clyde Line services, there are two Argyle Line trains per hour between Dalmuir and Glasgow Central (Low Level) – these come from Motherwell or Whifflet northbound but run southbound to Larkhall. Sundays see a half-hourly service to Edinburgh via Airdrie and to Helensburgh Central.[3]
The station is situated on the suburban Glasgow portion of the West Highland Way Line. However, none of these services stop here.
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Westerton | Abellio ScotRail Argyle Line |
Drumry | ||
| Westerton | Abellio ScotRail North Clyde Line |
Drumry | ||
References
- Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
- http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/DMC.aspx
- GB eNRT 2016 Edition, Table 226
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 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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