Kelvindale railway station

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5+12 miles (8.9 km) north of Glasgow Queen Street on the Maryhill Line.

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Services are provided by ScotRail as part of the SPT network.

History

The line through here was opened by the North British Railway company in 1874 on its route from Maryhill to Queens Dock, on the northern bank of the River Clyde (the Stobcross Railway) but the station itself is on a new site, the line having originally been built for freight traffic. Passenger services were eventually introduced by the NBR in 1887, but these ceased in 1903. Freight to the docks ended in 1968, but the route was still regularly used for freight access to various goods depots, shipyards & engineering plants (plus occasional passenger diversions) until 1980, when a signal box fire put the junction at Maryhill Park out of use and eventually led to the closure of the line between Maryhill & Anniesland.

The track was lifted in 1987/8, but the formation was kept intact and this made the eventual reinstatement of the line as part of the Larkhall branch reopening project in 2005. [2] Reopening the connection meant that Maryhill Line services no longer had to run empty to Knightswood North Junction (near Westerton) to reverse before returning to Queen Street, freeing up capacity for the extra trains serving the new line to Larkhall to run through Westerton and onwards to Milngavie. A station to serve the Kelvindale & Dawsholm area was proposed by SPT as part of the scheme (the station was originally to be called Dawsholm, but later changed to its present name) – though it wasn't ready in time for the reopening of the 1 mile (1.6 km) branch in April 2005, services subsequently began calling later that year.

Service

Monday to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service northbound to Glasgow Queen Street and southbound to Anniesland. [3]

With the timetable revision starting on 18 May 2014, a limited hourly Sunday service now operates on this route.

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References

  1. 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.
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  3. Table 232 National Rail timetable, May 2016
Kelvindale

Scottish Gaelic: Dail Cheilbhinn [1]
National Rail logo.svg
Kelvindale railway station.JPG
General information
Location Kelvindale, Glasgow
Scotland
Coordinates 55°53′36″N4°18′38″W / 55.8934°N 4.3105°W / 55.8934; -4.3105 Coordinates: 55°53′36″N4°18′38″W / 55.8934°N 4.3105°W / 55.8934; -4.3105
Grid reference NS556691
Managed by ScotRail
Transit authority SPT
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeKVD
Key dates
26 September 2005Opened
Passengers
2017/18Increase2.svg 92,212
Preceding station National Rail logo.svg National Rail Following station
Maryhill   ScotRail
Maryhill Line
  Anniesland