Kilpatrick railway station

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

Kilpatrick

Scottish Gaelic: Cill Phàdraig[1]
National Rail
Kilpatrick railway station, looking southeast towards Dalmuir. The Erskine Bridge can be seen overhead.
General information
LocationOld Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire
Scotland
Coordinates55°55′26″N 4°27′09″W / 55.9239°N 4.4525°W / 55.9239; -4.4525
Grid referenceNS468728
Managed byScotRail
Transit authoritySPT
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeKPT[2]
Key dates
31 May or 7 June 1858[3]Opened
Passengers
2019/20Steady 0.104 million
2020/21Decrease 15,420
2021/22Increase 48,198
2022/23Increase 66,432
2023/24Increase 70,598
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 ScotRail and is on the North Clyde Line, between Dalmuir and Bowling. It is situated 11 miles 17 chains (18.0 km) from Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Maryhill.[4][page needed]

Facilities

The station seen in 2016, looking west

The station is a split, two-platform station with ramp access. There are shelters and help points on both platforms, with a set of bike racks on one side.[5] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.[6]

A woman was killed in an apparent suicide here, being struck by a train in October 2011 at the station.[7]

Passenger volume

Passenger Volume at Kilpatrick[8]
2002–03 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23
Entries and exits 56,646 63,977 68,119 71,200 75,356 80,562 107,494 119,212 119,406 118,518 125,306 128,482 135,178 128,918 124,860 104,354 103,968 15,420 48,198 66,432

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

On weekdays and Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service to Balloch northbound and Airdrie southbound. On Sundays, trains run twice per hour to Balloch as normal, but run southbound to Motherwell (with one going via Whifflet, the other via Hamilton Central).[9]

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

References

  1. ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ^ "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  3. ^ Quick 2022, p. 266.
  4. ^ Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1909431-26-3.
  5. ^ "Kilpatrick station map". National Rail. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Kilpatrick Station | National Rail". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  7. ^ "Woman dies after being hit by train at station | Glasgow & West | News". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  9. ^ eNRT December 2023, Table 206 https://timetables.fabdigital.uk/nrt/dec2023/206%20Glasgow%20to%20Partick,%20Milngavie,%20Yoker,%20Dalmuir,%20Dumbarton,%20Balloch%20and%20Helensburgh.pdf

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