Drumchapel

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Drumchapel (1890-)

Station code: DMC National Rail ScotRail
Where: Glasgow City, Scotland
Opened on the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway.

Description

This is a two platform station close to Old Drumchapel with Drumchapel to the north. The main station building is on the eastbound platform.

There was formerly a small goods yard on the north side of the station, approached by a long siding from the east. The signal box burned down in 1925 and was never replaced.

To the west was a reversing spur (Garscadden Siding) for the Peel Glen Waggonway (Merry and Cunningham) (later the site of the Garscadden Brick Works) and to the east a siding for Drumchapel Colliery and later a tip. The box, on the south side of the line and east of Blairdardie Road, had been provided for access to this tip which is why the goods yard siding ran so far east.

Tags

Station
06/05/2019




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Drumry
Westerton
Garscadden
Yoker
Yoker Ferry
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Bearsden
Clydebank East
Renfrew Wharf
Kilbowie [1st]
Singer Workers Platforms
Clydebank Riverside
Scotstoun West
Clydebank
Singer
Drumchapel Colliery
Lock 34 [FCC]
Lock 33 [FCC]
Lock 35 [FCC]
Garscadden Siding
Lock 32 [FCC]
Garscadden Brick Works
Goodyear Factory
Lock 31 [FCC]
Lock 36 [FCC]
Whitecrook Locks
Lock 30 [FCC]
Lock 29 [FCC]
Lock 28 [FCC]
Blairdardie Colliery
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

01/05/1890Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Drumchapel and Lochburn stations opened.

News items

21/04/2022Drumchapel veteran Gus Cross backs Sight Scotland's Fair Rail Vision petition [Clydebank Post]
23/04/2021Clydebank train services disrupted after lorry strikes bridge between Drumchapel and Drumry [Clydebank Post]

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)