Singer railway station

Singer
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Location
Place	Clydebank
Local authority	West Dunbartonshire
Coordinates
Grid reference	NS497708
Operations
Station code	SIN
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	0.484 million
2004/05	0.539 million
2005/06	0.632 million
2006/07	0.621 million
2007/08	0.683 million
2008/09	0.713 million
2009/10	0.669 million
2010/11	0.685 million
2011/12	0.629 million
2012/13	0.641 million
2013/14	0.638 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
History
Original company	Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
3 November 1907	Opened
c.1942	Singer Workers' Platforms opened
8 May 1967	Singer Workers' Platforms closed
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Singer from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Singer railway station is a two-platformed manned station serving Clydebank town centre, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is located on the Argyle Line, west of Glasgow Central and the North Clyde Line, 8½ miles (13 km) west of Glasgow Queen Street.

Passenger services are provided by Abellio ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.

History

Singer station took its name from the huge Singer sewing machine factory that it was built to serve. The station is located on a section of track that was realigned to make space for the factory. In addition to this station (still in use today), the original station - titled Singer Works, previously called Kilbowie Road (Old), once boasted six bay platforms for the many workers' trains that ran there. The bay platforms, and indeed the factory, have long since gone.

Services

File:Singer railway station 1.jpg

An Argyle Line service

Singer is served by trains on the half-hourly, all day Monday to Saturdays, on both the Argyle and North Clyde lines. This means Monday to Saturday there is a train every 15 minutes to central Glasgow.

On Sundays, there is a half-hourly service to Glasgow Queen Street served by trains on the North Clyde Line.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Drumry		Abellio ScotRail Argyle Line		Dalmuir
Drumry		Abellio ScotRail North Clyde Line		Dalmuir
	Historical railways
Drumchapel		North British Railway Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway		Dalmuir

References

• McIntosh Gray, Alastair and Moffat, William (1989). A History of Scotland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-917063-0.

External links

• RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway