Dalmuir railway station

Dalmuir railway station is a railway station serving the Dalmuir area of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is a large, five-platform interchange between the Argyle Line, North Clyde Line and West Highland Line, between Singer and Clydebank (both to the south-east) and Kilpatrick (to the north-west). It is situated 9 mi from Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Westerton and Maryhill.

History
The original two-platform station opened on 31 May 1858. The station was relocated to its current location in May 1897 by the North British Railway and enlarged to four platforms to accommodate the extension of the Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway from Clydebank. The station was known as Dalmuir Park between 1952 and 1973. A fifth platform was added as part of the Argyle Line expansion in 1979.

Station layout
There are four through platforms, two on the Yoker branch and two on the Singer branch along with a terminal bay platform from the Yoker branch. The two inner platforms link up at the north end of the station, where there were formerly two footbridges - one spanning each pair of lines; however these were dismantled after being replaced by a new, fully disability-accessible bridge fitted with three lifts that links all five platforms in 2009.

Passenger Volume
The statistics cover twelve-month periods that start in April.

Services
Passenger services are provided by ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper. As befits a junction station with two alternative routes to the city and access to both main stations there (Glasgow Queen Street Low Level and Glasgow Central Low Level) there are a wide range of destinations available.

Northbound, there are 2 trains per hour each to both Balloch and Helensburgh Central via Dumbarton Central. Generally services to Helensburgh are nonstop to Dumbarton East, with the intermediate stations served by the Balloch terminating trains. Two trains each hour terminate from the line via Singer, and all four trains each hour from the Yoker line terminate here.

South/eastbound, the four trains via the Yoker line split: two terminate at Motherwell running via Hamilton, the other two running via Whifflet. The two Balloch trains run to Airdrie via Singer, whilst the two trains each hour terminating from that direction go to Larkhall. The Helensburgh Central trains run non-stop over the Yoker line as far as Hyndland, and continue to Edinburgh Waverley.

In addition the station is the first (or last) stop for almost all West Highland Line services from Queen Street High Level to Oban and Mallaig via Fort William.

The Highland Sleeper service also calls in each direction daily (except Saturday nights southbound and Sunday mornings northbound), giving the station a direct link to/from London Euston via the West Coast Main Line.