Singer railway station

Singer railway station is a two-platformed manned station serving Clydebank town centre, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is located on the Argyle Line, 7 ¹⁄₂ miles (12.1 km) west of Glasgow Central and the North Clyde Line, 8 ¹⁄₂ miles (13.7 km) west of Glasgow Queen Street.

Singer
Location	Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire Scotland
Coordinates	55.9075°N 4.4055°W
Grid reference	NS497708
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Transit authority	Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SIN
History
Original company	North British Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
3 November 1907	Opened
c.1942	Singer Workers' Platforms opened
8 May 1967	Singer Workers' Platforms closed
Passengers
2015/16	0.647 million
2016/17	0.660 million
2017/18	0.631 million
2018/19	0.575 million
2019/20	0.523 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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

History

Singer Sewing Machine Factory, Clydebank

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, which was titled Singer Works, and previously called Kilbowie Road (Old), once boasted six bay platforms for the many workers' trains that ran there. Regular works trains ended in 1963 and the bay platforms, and indeed the factory, have long since gone.[3][4]

Services

An Argyle Line service

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 (alternately to Queen Street L.L. and Central L.L.). Destinations served include Airdrie, Balloch, Dalmuir and Larkhall.[5] There is also one train per day from Oban which calls here in the morning peak to Glasgow Queen Street, This operates via Maryhill and avoids Partick altogether.

On Sundays, there is a half-hourly service to Glasgow Queen Street served by trains on the North Clyde Line to Edinburgh Waverley and Helensburgh Central.

References

1. "The Clydebank Story - Transport". Retrieved 11 February 2008.
2. McIntosh Gray and Moffat (1989)
3. Butt (1995): Page 212
4. "Aerial view of Singer". Archived from the original on 10 February 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
5. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 226

• 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 (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Yonge, John (May 1987). Gerald Jacobs (ed.). British Rail Track Diagams - Book 1: ScotRail (1st ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. ISBN 0-9006-0948-6.
• Yonge, John (February 1993). Gerald Jacobs (ed.). Railway Track Diagams - Book 1: Scotland and the Isle of Man (2nd ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. ISBN 0-9006-0995-8.
• Yonge, John (April 1996). Gerald Jacobs (ed.). Railway Track Diagams - Book 1: Scotland and the Isle of Man (3rd ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. ISBN 1-8983-1919-7.
• Yonge, John (2007). Gerald Jacobs (ed.). Railway Track Diagams - Book 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (Quail Track Plans) (fifth ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps (formerly Quail Map Co). ISBN 978-0-9549866-3-6. OCLC 79435248.
• McIntosh Gray, Alastair and Moffat, William (1989). A History of Scotland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-917063-0.

External links

• RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
• Singer railway station video footage.