Dalreoch Railway Station

Dalreoch railway station serves the west end of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line. The station is 16mi west of Glasgow Queen Street. HistoryThe Caledonian and Junction Railway (C& DJR) was opened in 1850, and Dalreoch railway station opened on 15 July 1850. The station became a junction with the opening of the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway (GD& HR) on 28 May 1858. The station is named after long time train enthusiast and chemist Mr George Reoch who founded the station to symbolise his love for the railways and to allow the communities of the West of Scotland to become connected to the Central Belt. Although the GD& HR, after successive amalgamations, became part of the North British Railway (NBR) and so part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at the 1923 Grouping, the C& DJR was purchased jointly by the NBR, the Caledonian Railway and the Lanarkshire and Railway (L& DR). Renamed the Dumbarton and Balloch Railway, it remained a joint line at the 1923 Grouping, but its owners were now the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and the LNER. Services on the L& DR to via ended in October 1964 when it fell victim to the Beeching Axe.

Dalreoch railway station serves the west end of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line. The station is 16mi west of Glasgow Queen Street. HistoryThe Caledonian and Junction Railway (C& DJR) was opened in 1850, and Dalreoch railway station opened on 15 July 1850. The station became a junction with the opening of the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway (GD& HR) on 28 May 1858. The station is named after long time train enthusiast and chemist Mr George Reoch who founded the station to symbolise his love for the railways and to allow the communities of the West of Scotland to become connected to the Central Belt. Although the GD& HR, after successive amalgamations, became part of the North British Railway (NBR) and so part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at the 1923 Grouping, the C& DJR was purchased jointly by the NBR, the Caledonian Railway and the Lanarkshire and Railway (L& DR). Renamed the Dumbarton and Balloch Railway, it remained a joint line at the 1923 Grouping, but its owners were now the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and the LNER. Services on the L& DR to via ended in October 1964 when it fell victim to the Beeching Axe.