Bowling railway station (Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway)

For the station on the former Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway / Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway, now part of the North Clyde Line, see Bowling railway station.

Bowling
Platform looking east
General information
Location	Bowling, West Dunbartonshire Scotland
Coordinates	55°55′56″N4°29′21″W / 55.9321°N 4.4892°W / 55.9321; -4.4892
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 October 1896 [1]	Opened
1 January 1917 [1]	Closed
1 February 1919 [1]	Reopened
5 February 1951 [1]	Closed
Location

Structure below platform

Bowling railway station was a railway station located in the village of Bowling, Scotland, on the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway.

Bowling station was closed in 1951 before this section of the L&DR was abandoned in 1960 (the parallel GH&DR being retained and electrified as part of the North Clyde electrification scheme). The trackbed through Bowling now forms a footpath and cycleway, part of National Cycle Network Route 7.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Old Kilpatrick Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway		Dumbarton East Station open; line partially open

Gallery

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  A tunnel to the west of the station.
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  Structure below platform.
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  To the east of the station, the former railway line crosses over the North Clyde Line.

References

Notes

1. Butt 1995, p. 41.

Sources

• Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   1-8526-0049-7. OCLC   19514063. CN 8983.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL   11956311M.
• 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.

External links

• RAILSCOT on the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway