Bowling railway station serves the village of Bowling in the West Dunbartonshire region of Scotland. This station is on the North Clyde Line, 12¼ miles (20 km) west of Glasgow Queen Street.

Bowling Scottish Gaelic: Bolan[1]
General information
Location	Bowling, West Dunbartonshire Scotland
Coordinates	55.9311°N 4.4929°W / 55.9311; -4.4929
Grid reference	NS442736
Managed by	ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BWG
History
Original company	Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	CR and NBR
Post-grouping	LMS and LNER
Key dates
31 May 1858[2]	Opened
Passengers
2016/17	34,438
2017/18	43,894
2018/19	61,326
2019/20	50,366
2020/21	5,320
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station is managed by ScotRail who also provide the train service. It was opened in 1858 by the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway, though Bowling had received its first railway several years earlier courtesy of the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway (whose Bowling Pier terminal linked into the steamer service along the River Clyde).

The station was made famous by a 1960 painting by the renowned railway artist, the late Terence Cuneo, who depicted a then new Blue train (Class 303) heading westbound into Bowling, passing a steam engine, which the 303 had replaced, in a siding. The painting was used as a poster 'Glasgow Electric'.[3]

Accidents and incidents

On 8 September 1933, a passenger train collided with wagons on the line due to a signalman's error. Five people were injured.[4]

Services

2006/07

There is a daily half-hourly service eastbound to Glasgow Queen Street and beyond (usually Airdrie) and westbound to Balloch.

2010/11

There is a daily half-hourly service eastbound to Glasgow Queen Street and Airdrie (including one direct service to Edinburgh Waverley in the morning) and westbound to Balloch.[5]

During the operation of the interim timetable until sufficient Class 380s had entered service, the eastbound service terminated at Airdrie.[6]

2016

The service remains half hourly in the May 2016 timetable but on weekdays and Saturdays, westbound trains now end at Dumbarton Central and eastbound trains run to Cumbernauld via Clydebank. Sunday services run half-hourly to Balloch and to Glasgow Central Low Level (and thence alternately to Motherwell via Whifflet and to Larkhall).[7]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kilpatrick		ScotRail North Clyde Line		Dumbarton East
	Historical railways
Kilpatrick Line and station open		North British Railway Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway		Line continues as C&DJR
Line continues as GD&HR		Caledonian & North British Railway Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway		Dumbarton Central Line closed; Station open

References

Notes

Sources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bowling railway station.

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• 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 (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.

External links

• Video footage of Bowling Railway Station

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