Kilpatrick railway station

For the station on the former Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway, see Old Kilpatrick railway station.

Kilpatrick Scottish Gaelic: Cill Phàdraig[1]
Kilpatrick railway station, looking southeast towards Dalmuir. The Erskine Bridge can be seen overhead.
General information
Location	Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire Scotland
Coordinates	55.9239°N 4.4525°W / 55.9239; -4.4525
Grid reference	NS468728
Managed by	ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KPT[2]
Key dates
31 May or 7 June 1858[3]	Opened
Passengers
2019/20	0.104 million
2020/21	15,420
2021/22	48,198
2022/23	66,432
2023/24	70,598
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Kilpatrick railway station serves the village of Old Kilpatrick in the West Dunbartonshire region of Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the North Clyde Line, between Dalmuir and Bowling. It is situated 11 miles 17 chains (18.0 km) from Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Maryhill.^{[4][page needed]}

Facilities

The station seen in 2016, looking west

The station is a split, two-platform station with ramp access. There are shelters and help points on both platforms, with a set of bike racks on one side.^[5] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.^[6]

A woman was killed in an apparent suicide here, being struck by a train in October 2011 at the station.^[7]

Passenger volume

Passenger Volume at Kilpatrick^[8]

	2002–03	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17	2017–18	2018–19	2019–20	2020–21	2021–22	2022–23
Entries and exits	56,646	63,977	68,119	71,200	75,356	80,562	107,494	119,212	119,406	118,518	125,306	128,482	135,178	128,918	124,860	104,354	103,968	15,420	48,198	66,432

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

On weekdays and Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service to Balloch northbound and Airdrie southbound. On Sundays, trains run twice per hour to Balloch as normal, but run southbound to Motherwell (with one going via Whifflet, the other via Hamilton Central).^[9]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dalmuir		ScotRail North Clyde Line		Bowling
	Historical railways
Dalmuir Line and station open		Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway		Bowling Line and station open

References

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
3. Quick 2022, p. 266.
4. Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1909431-26-3.
5. "Kilpatrick station map". National Rail. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
6. "Kilpatrick Station | National Rail". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
7. "Woman dies after being hit by train at station | Glasgow & West | News". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
8. "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
9. eNRT December 2023, Table 206 https://timetables.fabdigital.uk/nrt/dec2023/206%20Glasgow%20to%20Partick,%20Milngavie,%20Yoker,%20Dalmuir,%20Dumbarton,%20Balloch%20and%20Helensburgh.pdf

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Quick, Michael (2022). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: A Chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). London: Railway and Canal Historical Society.

External links

• Train times and station information for Kilpatrick railway station from National Rail