Alexandria railway station

Alexandria railway station serves the town of Alexandria, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by their trains on the North Clyde Line. It is sited 19 mi northwest of Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Singer and Maryhill, and is situated between Renton and Balloch.

History


Opened by the Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway on 15 July 1850, it became part of a joint London, Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern Railway line during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The line through the station was double until 1973, but now only one track and platform are in use.

In 2018, it was reported locally that new signage, showing the way to the Vale of Leven Hospital, had been installed at the station and at Balloch.

Facilities
Unlike Renton, the only other intermediate station on the Balloch line, Alexandria does have a ticket office and a car park. It also has a help point, bench and bike racks located on the platform, plus a payphone in the ticket office. Although the ticket office entrance from the car park is not step-free, there is step-free access to the platform (and from the platform to the ticket office).

Passenger volume
The main origin or destination station for journeys to or from Alexandria in the 2022–23 period was Glasgow Queen Street, making up 41,932 of the 148,340 journeys (28.3%). The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services
There is a half-hourly daily service to Balloch northbound; southbound, the service is also half-hourly, but trains run to Airdrie on weekdays and Saturdays, and - on Sundays - to Motherwell (via Whifflet) or Larkhall (via Hamilton Central) alternately (i.e., hourly trains from Balloch to Motherwell/Larkhall).