Alexandria

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Alexandria (1850-1935)
Alexandria and Bonhill (1935-1962)
Alexandria (1962-)

Station code: ALX National Rail ScotRail
Where: West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Opened on the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway.
Opened on the Dumbarton and Balloch Joint Railway (Caledonian Railway, Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway and North British Railway Joint).

Description

This is a single platform station. There is a modern building on the platform. With road improvements, planners have placed the station in the middle of a large roundabout. There is a car park.

It was formerly a two platform station and the northbound line was lifted, parts of its platform remain disused. The platforms were slightly staggered. The main building had been on the remaining platform.

There was a goods yard on either side, just south of the station, some sidings accessed by turnplates. Ultimately the sidings were on the east side of the line, accessed from the south. Alexandria Goods.

The signal box was on the southbound platform, just north of the main station building. It took over from Dalquhurn (at Cordale Branch Junction) and Renton boxes in 1960.

The box closed in 1973 when the line was singled, the northbound line being lifted.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
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News items

13/04/2023Balloch Station set for park and ride, as part of local transport funding boost [Daily Record]
11/08/2022Tram tracks have been uncovered in Alexandria after almost 100 years [Daily Record]
11/03/2022ScotRail Dumbarton-Balloch trains cancelled for 'urgent track repairs' [Dumbarton Reporter]
28/02/2022ScotRail push ahead with cuts to ticket office opening times in West Dunbartonshire [Daily Record]
01/09/2021Egypt signs contract for Suez Canal on tracks [Railway Gazette]
09/08/2021Dumbarton, Vale and Balloch projects on transport shopping list [Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter]
12/08/2017Egypt trains collide in Alexandria killing dozens [BBC News]

Books


The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)