Bainfield Level Crossing

Location type


Name and dates

Bainfield Level Crossing

Opened on the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway.




Chronology Dates

  /05/2003Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Fatal accident on the footway crossing Bainfield Level Crossing in Cardross.
05/01/2005Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Following local opposition Network Rail's planned closure of Bainfield Level Crossing does not go ahead.
30/07/2005Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Dumbarton Sherriff Court grants an injunction to Argyll and Bute Council to refuse Network Rail's plan to close up Bainfield Level Crossing on the weekend of the 30th.

News items

29/09/2023Cardross community meeting to be held on trains sound horns [Helensburgh Advertiser]
19/05/2021Public urged to avoid Bainfield Road rail crossing in Cardross over safety fears [Helensburgh Advertiser]

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

Around Helensburgh (Archive Photographs: Images of Scotland)

Battrum's Guide to Helensburgh and Neighbourhood

Craigendoran and Helensburgh (East) 1897: Dumbartonshire Sheet 17.06 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Dumbartonshire)

Glasgow Railway Memories

Glasgow Stations

Glasgow's Last Days of Steam

Helensburgh & Rhu Through Time

Helensburgh & the Rosneath Peninsula: The Guide Book: (Including Cardross, Garelochhead & Loch Long)

Helensburgh in Old Picture Postcards

Old Helensburgh, Rhu and Shandon

Rails Around Glasgow

The Railways of Glasgow: Post-Beeching

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