Singer
Location type
StationName and dates
Singer (1907-)Station code: SIN National Rail ScotRail
Where: West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Opened on the Singer Deviation (North British Railway).
Description
This was a two platform station with waiting rooms on the platforms and a booking office on Kilbowie Road to the east.
To enable expansion of the Singer Works the route of the former Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway was closed and the Singer Deviation (North British Railway) opened further north with the new Singer station.
The works was immediately to the south of the station and was served both by the station and Kilbowie Road, on the original alignment, which became a private multi platform terminus.
Tags
Station deviationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
12/03/2018
Dates
| 03/11/1907 | Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Singer station on new loop line skirting round the north of the Singer Works opened. The old course of the line becomes a goods line to the west of Kilbowie Road and the old station becomes a terminus for worker's trains, Singer Workers Platforms, and is expanded to 6 platforms. |
| 01/09/1913 | Glasgow and Milngavie Junction RailwayGlasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Westerton station opened at the junction of the Milngavie line with the Singer line. Westerton Garden Suburb was being established in what was previously farmland to the north of the line. |
| / /1983 | Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Stobcross Railway Maryhill Park signal box burns down, line from Maryhill Park Junction [1st] to Knightswood South Junction (Anniesland) out of use. Trains from Rothesay Dock to BSC Ravenscraig Steelworks (imported coal) and stock movements unable to run. Fort William sleeper diverted to run through Singer. |
| /07/1989 | Yoker Re-signaling Scheme Re-signaling complete. Boxes at Helensburgh Central, Craigendoran, Dumbarton Central, Dalmuir Park, Singer, Milngavie, Westerton, Hyndland, Clydebank Dock, High Street East Junction, Bellgrove, Parkhead, Shettleston, Heatheryknowe Junction, Sunnyside Junction, Airdrie replaced by the new Yoker Signalling Centre. |
