Alexandria railway station

Alexandria
View south towards Renton
General information
Location	Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire Scotland
Coordinates	55°59′07″N 4°34′38″W / 55.9853°N 4.5773°W / 55.9853; -4.5773
Grid reference	NS393799
Managed by	ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	ALX[1]
History
Original company	Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway and North British Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR and LNER
Key dates
15 July 1850[2]	Station opened
January 1935	Renamed Alexandria and Bonhill
1962	Renamed Alexandria
Passengers
2018/19	0.244 million
2019/20	0.233 million
2020/21	26,080
2021/22	0.111 million
2022/23	0.148 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Alexandria railway station serves the town of Alexandria, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by their trains on the North Clyde Line. It is sited 19 miles 20 chains (31.0 km) northwest of Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Singer and Maryhill, and is situated between Renton and Balloch.^{[3][page needed]}

Opened by the Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway on 15 July 1850,^[2] it became part of a joint London, Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern Railway line during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The line through the station was double until 1973, but now only one track and platform are in use.^{[citation needed]}

In 2018, it was reported locally that new signage, showing the way to the Vale of Leven Hospital, had been installed at the station and at Balloch.^[4]

Unlike Renton, the only other intermediate station on the Balloch line, Alexandria does have a ticket office and a car park. It also has a help point, bench and bike racks located on the platform, plus a payphone in the ticket office. Although the ticket office entrance from the car park is not step-free, there is step-free access to the platform (and from the platform to the ticket office).^[5]

The main origin or destination station for journeys to or from Alexandria in the 2022–23 period was Glasgow Queen Street, making up 41,932 of the 148,340 journeys (28.3%).^[6]

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

There is a half-hourly daily service to Balloch northbound; southbound, the service is also half-hourly, but trains run to Airdrie on weekdays and Saturdays, and - on Sundays - to Motherwell (via Whifflet) or Larkhall (via Hamilton Central) alternately (i.e., hourly trains from Balloch to Motherwell/Larkhall).^[7]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Renton		ScotRail North Clyde Line		Balloch
	Historical railways
Renton		CR & NBR Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway		Balloch Central

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.

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• Train times and station information for Alexandria railway station from National Rail
• Station on navigable O.S. map

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