Kilpatrick

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Kilpatrick (1858-)

Station code: KPT National Rail ScotRail
Where: West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Opened on the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Helensburgh.

Description

This is a two platform station. An original single storey station building remains on the westbound platform (another example survives at Cardross). The building is extended at the east end. The station is to the north of, and above, the village.

There was a NBR style timber building on the eastbound platform.

The station had a small goods yard to the west and on the south side of the line. This was reached by reversing from the westbound line. The signal box was on the north side of line opposite the goods yard. East of the station is Lusset Glen Viaduct.

The huge RN Oil Fuel Depot Dalnottar was laid out on either side of the line to the east of the station, construction beginning in 1918 and with a pipeline over to Grangemouth on the River Forth.

The original box closed in 1941 and a temporary box used until its replacement opened in 1942.

The box closed in 1959, in the run up to electrification.

To the east the Erskine Bridge crosses over the line.

Old Kilpatrick was also served by Old Kilpatrick, a station to the south, located in the lower village nearer the River Clyde.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
02/07/2021




Nearby stations
Old Kilpatrick
Dalmuir
Dalmuir [1st]
Bowling [CR]
Dalmuir Riverside
Bowling
Singer
Kilbowie [1st]
Kilbowie
Singer Workers Platforms
Bishopton
Clydebank
Clydebank East
Clydebank Riverside
Drumry
Lusset Glen Viaduct
Lock 37 [FCC]
Old Kilpatrick Swing Bridge
Electric Lamp Factory [Old Kilpatrick]
RN Oil Fuel Depot Dalnottar
Arnott, Young and Co [Old Kilpatrick]
British Marine Motor Works
Ferrydyke Bascule Bridge
Donald^s Quay
Mountblow Oil Terminal
Tourist/other
Dalnotter House
Erskine Ferry Slip
Erskine Ferry Slip
Auchentoshan Distillery
Mountblow House
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

28/05/1858Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Opened as single track from Cowlairs Junction to Bowling and Dalreoch Junction to Helensburgh. Due to a disagreement over station access charges between the company and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway the first trains ran to Buchanan Street using the Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) and a connection at St Rollox (Sighthill West Junction) with the Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) line. The disagreement was resolved a month later. (Alternative date 31st.) Stations opened at (eastern portion) Maryhill, Dalmuir [1st] and Kilpatrick, and (western portion) Cardross and Helensburgh.

News items

21/11/2023Residents warned of signal fault at local station [Helensburgh Advertiser]
10/12/2021Dumbarton Road, Old Kilpatrick reopened following 3.5m bridge replacement works [Network Rail]
24/11/2021Old Kilpatrick A814 bridge works will finish late [Clydebank Post]
31/07/2021Old Kilpatrick: Bridge near Glasgow to close on Monday to traffic for around four months [Evening Times]
12/07/2021Old Kilpatrick bridge: A814 to shut for four months due to demolition work [Clydebank Post]
09/10/2020Picture of the Week: The Jacobite steam train [Clydebank Post]
25/02/2020Work complete on Old Kilpatrick bridge despite storms [Network Rail]
18/02/2020Road at Old Kilpatrick rail bridge now reopened despite delay [Clydebank Post]
13/02/2020Reopening of road at Old Kilpatrick bridge delayed due to weather [Clydebank Post]
23/01/2020Old Kilpatrick road closure is vital step towards rail bridge refurbishment [Network Rail]

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)