Westerton railway station

Westerton

Scottish Gaelic: Am Baile Siar[1]
National Rail
The station platforms seen in 2021
General information
LocationBearsden, East Dunbartonshire
Scotland
Coordinates55°54′17″N 4°20′06″W / 55.9048°N 4.3351°W / 55.9048; -4.3351
Grid referenceNS541704
Managed byScotRail
Transit authoritySPT
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeWES[2]
History
Pre-groupingNorth British Railway
Post-groupingLNER
Key dates
1 September 1913Opened[3]
Passengers
2018/19Increase 0.791 million
2019/20Decrease 0.775 million
 Interchange 26,884
2020/21Decrease 0.103 million
 Interchange Decrease 1,780
2021/22Increase 0.382 million
 Interchange Increase 14,546
2022/23Increase 0.513 million
 Interchange Increase 16,227
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Westerton railway station is a railway station that serves the Westerton district in the town of Bearsden, Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail as part of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network. It is located on the Argyle and North Clyde lines, between Drumchapel to the west, Bearsden to the north, and Anniesland and Maryhill to the south-east. It is 6 miles 10 chains (9.9 km) west of Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Maryhill.[4]

The station lies very close to the Forth and Clyde Canal and the boundary between East Dunbartonshire and the city of Glasgow.

  1. ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ^ "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  3. ^ Butt (1995),page 245
  4. ^ Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. p. 137. ISBN 978 1909431 26 3.

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