Ashfield railway station (Scotland)

Ashfield railway station is a railway station serving the Milton and Parkhouse areas of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the Maryhill Line, 2 ¹⁄₂ miles (4 km) north of Glasgow Queen Street, a short distance west of Cowlairs North Junction. It has two side platforms. Services are provided by Abellio ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT).

Ashfield Scottish Gaelic: Achadh an Uinnsinn[1]
Ashfield railway station, looking towards Glasgow Queen Street
Location	Milton, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55.8888°N 4.2484°W
Grid reference	NS595684
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ASF
History
Original company	British Rail
Key dates
6 December 1993	Station opened
Passengers
2015/16	76,500
2016/17	50,340
2017/18	83,486
2018/19	84,458
2019/20	66,384
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

Opened in 1993 under British Rail management during the Sectorisation era introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail came into effect on 1 April 1994. It was one of five new stations to be opened as part of the Maryhill Line project, with three of them (including this one) on new sites. The line through the station is however a lot older, being opened back in 1858 by the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway and has been used since the latter end of the 19th century by West Highland Line passenger and freight trains to reach the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway main line at Cowlairs and hence Queen Street High Level.

Services

Monday to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service eastbound to Glasgow Queen Street and westbound to Anniesland, where connections are available for North Clyde Line services.[2]

Since 18 May 2014, a limited hourly Sunday service now operates on this line – trains call between 09:30 and 19:00.

Notes

1. Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
2. Table 232 National Rail timetable, May 2016

References

• 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 ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

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