Dumbarton Central railway station

• West Highland Line
• North Clyde Line

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Dumbarton Central station is a through station in the Scottish town of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire. 1984, the station building was inducted into the Scottish lists of monuments in the highest category A.

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The station was British Railway joined in 1850 by the North as part of the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway, the bowling with the pier at Balloch, as Dumbarton station opened and two years later renamed Dumbarton Central Station. The current station is based on a new building of the old train station that has been extended in this course on four tracks. In addition to the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway Dumbarton was from this point on the terminus of the newly established Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway, which ran from Glasgow, starting along the northern bank of the Clyde. The fourth track was removed after 1976. Today the station of trains on the West Highland Line ( Glasgow- Mallaig ) and the North Clyde Line is operated ( Helensburgh or Balloch to Glasgow or Edinburgh). With Dumbarton East, the city still has a second railway station.

Description

The single-storey station building and centrally located at Station Road. It has features of Tudor Gothic with brick ornaments, a cantilevered, crenellated parapet and partly flanked by pillars Blend pointed arch windows. The wooden entrance door of the erected around 1900 to buy the ticket hall has ornaments. In addition there are installed stained glass windows. Lead on both sides decorated, curved staircases with decorative tiles and tile to the platforms. Both platforms are of identical and parallel.