Westerton railway station


Westerton railway station is a railway station that serves the Westerton district in the town of Bearsden, Scotland.
The station is served by Abellio ScotRail as part of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network. It is located on the Argyle Line, west of and the North Clyde Line, west of.
The station lies very close to the Forth and Clyde Canal and the boundary between East Dunbartonshire and the city of Glasgow.

Signalling

Westerton signal box, which was situated in the vee of the junction immediately to the west of the station, opened in 1900 as "Milngavie Junction". Renamed "Westerton" on 10 May 1959, the box was provided with a new frame of 20 levers and took over control of Knightswood North Junction. Colour light signals replaced the semaphores. Westerton signal box closed by British Rail on 21 October 1990 under a subsequent resignalling scheme that saw control of the whole North Clyde Line transferred to Yoker Signalling Centre.

Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes eight trains per hour go southeastbound: four towards Glasgow Queen Street of which 2 go to and 2 go to Edinburgh Waverley via on the North Clyde Line; and four via Glasgow Central, of which 2 go to via and 2 go to on the Argyle Line. Northwestbound trains head towards and .
On Monday-Saturday evenings the Milngavie-Edinburgh Waverley service ceases to operate, other routes continue to run. Sundays there are 2tph between Helensburgh Central and Edinburgh Waverley and 2tph between Milngavie and Motherwell via Hamilton.
Prior to 19 September 2014, Westerton was also served by the overnight Caledonian Sleeper service between Fort William and London Euston running on Sunday-Friday nights. From 21 September 2014 the sleeper service was re-routed to call instead at Queen Street Low Level and so the stop was removed from the timetable.

Facilities

The station has adjacent parking with 110 spaces and 14 sheltered bicycle stands. The station has a staffed ticked office with a public toilet on platform 1 and sheltered seating on platform 2. The station has a cross platform bridge with lift access which began production in June 2017 and became operational in 2018.