Yoker railway station

Yoker railway station serves the district of Yoker, Scotland.

Yoker
Scottish Gaelic: An Eochair[1]
A Class 318 EMU departs at night
Location
PlaceYoker
Local authorityWest Dunbartonshire
Coordinates55.8929°N 4.3873°W / 55.8929; -4.3873
Grid referenceNS508691
Operations
Station codeYOK
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.167 million
2015/16 0.167 million
2016/17 0.152 million
2017/18 0.164 million
2018/19 0.173 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTEStrathclyde Partnership for Transport
History
1882Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Yoker from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station is served by Abellio ScotRail as part of the SPT network, on the Argyle and North Clyde Lines.

It is the nearest railway station to the Renfrew Ferry on the north side of the River Clyde.

The large Yoker Traction Maintenance Depot, which looks after the EMU fleet used on North Clyde suburban services, is a short distance to the east, towards Garscadden. Yoker IECC is also nearby - this has controlled the signalling on the entire North Clyde network since established by British Rail in 1989.

Services

There is a basic weekdays and Saturday daytime service of 4 times every hour (every 15 minutes) in each direction, northbound to Dalmuir via Clydebank (two of which continue to Dumbarton Central) and southbound to Partick. From here alternate services run via Queen Street Low Level to Cumbernauld via Springburn and via Central Low Level to Whifflet via Rutherglen (2tph to each route - one Whifflet train continues to Motherwell). Services towards Dalmuir from the Argyle line, however, are from Cumbernauld (hourly) or Motherwell (both trains per hour) via Hamilton.[2]

After a timetable change in 2014, the Yoker line now receives 4tph all day on Mondays-Saturdays (previously the evening Argyle line services were cut back to Partick). The Sunday service runs between Balloch and alternately Motherwell via Whifflet and Larkhall.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Garscadden   Abellio ScotRail
Argyle Line
   Clydebank
Garscadden   Abellio ScotRail
North Clyde Line
   Clydebank

See also

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)
  2. Table 225 & 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016


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