Singer railway station

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Singer
Location
Place	Clydebank
Local authority	West Dunbartonshire
Operations
Station code	SIN
Managed by	First ScotRail
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2002/03 *	0.484 million
2004/05 *	0.539 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
History
Opened	3 November 1907
Singer Worker's Platform Opened	approx 1942
Singer Worker's Platform Closed	8 May 1967
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Singer from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Singer railway station is a two-platformed manned station serving Clydebank town centre, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is located on the Argyle Line 12 km (8 miles) west of Glasgow Central and the North Clyde Line 13 km (8½ miles) west of Glasgow Queen Street.

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

Contents 1 History 2 Gallery 3 Services 4 References 4.1 Notes 4.2 Sources

[edit] History

Singer station took its name from the huge Singer sewing machine factory that it was built to serve.^[1][2][3] 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.^[3][4]

[edit] Gallery

Entrance on Kilbowie Road.

This station remains named after the factory which once stood beside it.

[edit] Services

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 (Helensburgh Central-Drumgelloch).

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Drumry		First ScotRail Argyle Line		Dalmuir
Drumry		First ScotRail North Clyde Line		Dalmuir
Glasgow Queen Street		First ScotRail West Highland Line		Dumbarton Central
Historical Railways
Drumchapel		Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway North British Railway		Dalmuir

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

[edit] Sources

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 

• McIntosh Gray, Alastair and Moffat, William (1989). A History of Scotland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-1991-7063-0.
• RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway