Bridgeton railway station

Bridgeton
Scottish Gaelic: Baile na Drochaid
Bridgeton station, looking south east towards Dalmarnock
Location
Place	Bridgeton
Local authority	Glasgow
Coordinates	55°50′54″N 4°13′30″W / 55.8484°N 4.2250°WCoordinates: 55°50′54″N 4°13′30″W / 55.8484°N 4.2250°W
Grid reference	NS607639
Operations
Station code	BDG
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	0.140 million
2004/05	0.207 million
2005/06	0.240 million
2006/07	0.286 million
2007/08	0.309 million
2008/09	0.467 million
2009/10	0.394 million
2010/11	0.409 million
2011/12	0.489 million
2012/13	0.617 million
2013/14	0.647 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
1 November 1895	Opened
5 October 1964	Closed
5 November 1979	Re-opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bridgeton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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The station in 1961

Bridgeton railway station serves the Bridgeton district of Glasgow, Scotland and is a station on the Argyle Line, 1¾ miles (3 km) south east of Glasgow Central. The station is operated by Abellio ScotRail who also provide all train services.

History

It was opened on 1 November 1895 when the line between Glasgow Green and Rutherglen was opened by the Glasgow Central Railway. The station became a junction with the opening of the line to Carmyle and Kirkhill on 1 February 1897. Westbound services ran to Stobcross, from where they could proceed to Possil via Maryhill Central, Partickhill and points north via the connection to the Stobcross Railway or onto the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway to Dumbarton & Balloch Central via Partick Central & Dalmuir Riverside.

In 1956 the line was re-signalled with colour light signals controlled from the re-equipped signal boxes at Bridgeton Cross Junction and Stobcross Junction. However, the station was closed along with both lines on 5 October 1964 as a result of the Beeching Axe. The tracks were subsequently lifted, but the station & tunnels were left intact.

As part of the Argyle Line project, the Rutherglen line platforms reopened on 5 November 1979, offering regular commuter services into Central Station (low level) and on towards the western suburbs.

Accidents and incidents

• On 2 February 1929, a passenger train was diverted into the bay platform due to a signalman's error. Several people were injured when the train crashed through the buffers.^[1]

Services

1979

When the Argyle Line was opened in 1979, there were six trains an hour to the Hamilton Circle, from Dalmuir, with two services an hour going as far west as Dumbarton Central. The hourly service between Lanark and Milngavie ran non-stop through Bridgeton station.

2008

Four trains per hour daily head westbound towards Glasgow Central and beyond (Milngavie and Dalmuir) and eastbound towards Motherwell (with services onward to Lanark).

2015

The basic four trains per hour frequency remains unchanged, but since the December 2014 timetable recast southbound trains now run to either Motherwell via Hamilton Central or via Whifflet (though alternate services on that route terminate at Whifflet). On Sundays, southbound trains also serve Larkhall every hour.

Routes

References

1. Earnshaw, Alan (1989). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 5. Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 23. ISBN 0-906899-35-4.

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 ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.