| Cardross | |||||||||
| Native Name: | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Càrdanros | ||||||||
| Symbol Location: | gb | ||||||||
| Symbol: | rail | ||||||||
| Borough: | Cardross, Argyll and Bute | ||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 55.9601°N -4.6526°W | ||||||||
| Grid Name: | Grid reference | ||||||||
| Manager: | ScotRail | ||||||||
| Platforms: | 2 | ||||||||
| Code: | CDR[1] | ||||||||
| Zone: | D3 | ||||||||
| Transit Authority: | SPT | ||||||||
| Original: | Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway | ||||||||
| Pregroup: | North British Railway | ||||||||
| Postgroup: | LNER | ||||||||
| Years: | May or June 1858[2] | ||||||||
| Events: | Station opened | ||||||||
| Years1: | 1960 | ||||||||
| Events1: | Electric train service commenced | ||||||||
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | ||||||||
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Cardross railway station is a railway station serving the village of Cardross, Scotland. The station is 19miles from, measured via Singer and Maryhill.[4] It is on the North Clyde Line between Dalreoch and Craigendoran, positioned on the banks of the north side of the River Clyde. The station is managed by ScotRail, who operate all services.
The station was opened by the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway on 28 May,[2] 31 May, or 7 June 1858. The line was electrified in 1960.[5] [6] There were some goods sidings here previously - possibly built in the late 1940s - but these were removed in the mid-1960s with the end of regular freight movements on the line.[7]
The station is well equipped with shelters, help points and benches on both platforms, as well as a ticket office on bike racks on platform 1, with a car park adjacent. Both platforms have step-free access, and are linked by both a footbridge and a level crossing. Platform 1 unusually has five different points of access, plus others from platform 2, via the footbridge.[8]
| Entries and exits | 156,692 | 186,479 | 196,675 | 194,365 | 204,476 | 238,070 | 226,918 | 227,656 | 230,504 | 227,026 | 227,826 | 180,394 | 164,610 | 145,004 | 142,808 | 145,428 | 121,228 | 68,212 | 110,812 | 126,248 |
On weekdays and Saturdays, there is typically a half-hourly service westbound to Helensburgh Central, and eastbound to Edinburgh Waverley, via Glasgow Queen Street low-level and Airdrie, which skips stations between Dalmuir and Hyndland. On Sundays, the service remains half-hourly, but trains serve all stations via . Trains operating to the West Highland Line do not stop here, except for one departure in the morning, which runs to Glasgow Queen Street via Maryhill.[10]