Singer railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Singer
other_name =
code = SIN


caption =
manager = First ScotRail
locale = Clydebank
borough = West Dunbartonshire
platforms = 2
pte = Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
usage0203 = 0.484
usage0405 = 0.539
usage0506 = 0.632
usage0607 = 0.621
original = Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
pregroup = North British Railway
postgroup = LNER
years = Opened
events = 3 November 1907
years1 = Singer Worker's Platform Opened
events1 = approx 1942
years2 = Singer Worker's Platform Closed
events2 = 8 May 1967

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.

History

Singer station took its name from the huge Singer sewing machine factory that it was built to serve. [cite web | url = http://www.theclydebankstory.com/index.php | title = The Clydebank Story - Transport | accessdate = 2008-02-11 ] [McIntosh Gray and Moffat (1989)] Butt (1995): Page 212] 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. [cite web | url = http://ccgi.ewanbeth.force9.co.uk/cgi-bin/images/imagecomplete.php?recno=2583 | title = Aerial view of Singer | accessdate = 2008-02-10 ]

Gallery

ervices

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).

rail line
next = Dalmuir
previous = Drumry
route = First ScotRail

Argyle Line
col = FF80C0rail line
next = Dalmuir
previous = Drumry
route = First ScotRail

North Clyde Line
col = FF80C0rail line
next = Dalmuir
previous = Drumchapel
route = North British Railway

Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
col = NBR colour
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References

Notes

ources

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* McIntosh Gray, Alastair and Moffat, William (1989). "A History of Scotland". Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-1991-7063-0.
* [http://www.railscot.co.uk/Glasgow_Dumbarton_and_Helensburgh_Railway/frame.htm RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway]