Dumbreck railway station

Dumbreck railway station is a railway station in Dumbreck, a district of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and lies on the Paisley Canal Line, 1¾ miles (3 km) west of Glasgow Central, close to the M77 motorway. It is accessed from the Nithsdale Road at the bridge over the railway. Dumbreck railway station is also the closest station for the Bellahouston Park.

Dumbreck
Scottish Gaelic: An Dùn Breac[1]
Dumbreck station in September 2008
Location
PlaceDumbreck
Local authorityGlasgow
Coordinates55.8450°N 4.3008°W / 55.8450; -4.3008
Grid referenceNS560637
Operations
Station codeDUM
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.151 million
2015/16 0.164 million
2016/17 0.170 million
2017/18 0.179 million
2018/19 0.170 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTESPT
History
Original companyBritish Rail
28 July 1990Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dumbreck from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

It was opened on 28 July 1990 at the same time as the reopening by British Rail of the Paisley Canal Line, which had closed to passengers in 1983. Dumbreck is situated close to the site of one of the original stations on the line, Bellahouston, which closed in 1954.

Services

Monday to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service eastbound to Glasgow Central and westbound to Paisley Canal.

There is an hourly service on Sundays.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Corkerhill   Abellio ScotRail
Paisley Canal Line
   Glasgow Central

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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

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