The original two platform station located on Park Road, was the first stop after Maryhill Park on the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway opened in May 1858. The station was relocated to its current location in 1897 by the North British Railway and enlarged to four platforms to accommodate the extension of the Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway from - the new line met the older one via immediately west of the original platforms at Dalmuir Park Junction after passing beneath the former GD&HR line a few yards to the east. The station was known as Dalmuir Park between 1952 and 1973 A fifth platform was added as part of the Argyle Line expansion in 1979.
Station layout
There are four through platforms, two on the branch & two on the branch along with a terminal bay platform from the Yoker branch constructed as part of the Argyle Line improvement works in 1979 under British Rail. Trains terminating from the Singer branch reverse in a turnback siding to the west of the station just past the junction. The two inner platforms link up at the north end of the station, where there were formerly two footbridges - one spanning each pair of lines. However these were dismantled in 2010 after being replaced by a new, fully disability-accessible bridge fitted with three lifts that links all five platforms. The other station buildings are Portakabin-type structures erected in the early 1980s to replace the original stone ones.
Services
Passenger services are provided by Abellio ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper. As befits a junction station with two alternative routes to the city and access to both main stations there there are a wide range of destinations available. Northbound, there are 2 trains per hour each to both and via, plus a further 2tph that terminate at the latter. Generally services to Helensburgh & Balloch are nonstop to, with the intermediate stations served by the Dumbarton Central terminating trains. South/eastbound services are 2tph each to via, via and , all via Queen Street LL; and 2tph each to via Singer and via Yoker, all via Central LL and the Argyle Line. Arrivals from the Argyle line however, are from Motherwell via Hamilton and Yoker and from Whifflet via Carmyle and Singer rather than Larkhall. Following a major timetable recast in December 2014, through workings from here over the Argyle Line no longer directly serve stations via Bellshill to Lanark as they did previously, though connections are available by changing at. On Sundays there is a simplified pattern in operation - Helensburgh to Edinburgh via Singer and Queen St, and Balloch via Yoker and Central LL to either Larkhall or Motherwell via Whifflet. In addition the station is the first stop for West Highland Line services from Queen Street High Level to and via however there is one train per day from Oban which doesn't call here and passes through. The Highland Sleeper service also calls in each direction daily, giving the station a direct link to/from London Euston via the West Coast Main Line.
