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This was a two platform station opened in 1879 on a line opened in 1856. It was built just as the area became industrial, particularly just in advance of the opening of the Singer Works in 1884. It was located on the east side of Kilbowie Road, south of today's Singer station (on the west side of the road) which replaced it. The station had its main building on the northern platform. There was a goods yard to the south which had a line into the Kilbowie Iron Works. The signal box was located at the east end of the station and on the north side of the line.

With the opening of the Singer Works further platforms were added on the south side of the station and its goods yard, accessed from the east. When the works opened there were virtually no houses in the area, the entire workforce had to commute from elsewhere. It was not until well into the 20th century before housing was developed nearby. The station was essential to the success of the works. To the west sidings lines served the works, these ran west from the goods yard passing under Kilbowie Road.

With expansion of the works on its north side around 1907 the through line closed, being severed just west of the former station. The platforms lines survived as sidings and the platforms themselves were removed. The road bridge over the former line remained to provide access from the works. Exchange sidings were laid to the north of the former station and, like the goods yard, were approached from the east. The goods lines into the works remained in place. The main station building survived. A deviation round the north of the station was opened to the north along with Singer station. The signal box was replaced by a new one at the eastern junction of the new deviation, the Singer Deviation (North British Railway).

After closure of the Singer Works Singer Workers Platforms closed and all the lines were lifted (with the exception of a loop on the surviving deviation line).

Nothing remains of the station but the bridges which carried Kilbowie Road over the lines. A double track bridge to the north, which carried the original route, and two single track tunnels to the south which had been for the goods lines into the works. The station site is now part of the Clyde Shopping Centre.

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