Cardross Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Cardross Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Cardross, Station Road, Railway Station
Canmore ID 128403
Site Number NS37NW 28
NGR NS 34479 77331
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/128403
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Cardross (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS37NW 28 34479 77331
Not to be confused with Port of Monteith Station (formerly Cardross Station), for which see NS69NW 21.
Cardross station: A two platform through station, with a low single-storey stone building on the up platform.
Visited and photographed, J R Hume, University of Strathclyde, 1961.
Information from MS/749 (Dunbartonshire, Cardross parish, Cardross station), photographic print attached (negative with reporter, J R Hume).
(Location cited as NS 344 773). Cardross Station, opened 1858 by the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Rly. A two-platform through station with the main offices on the up platform in a single-storey ashlar building with round-headed windows. The down-platform building is a one-storey wooden building with an awning of typical North British Rly. pattern.
J R Hume 1976.
This intermediate station was opened on 18 March 1858 by the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Rly. It was electrified in the early 1960's, and remains in regular use by passenger traffic.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 June 1998.
R V J Butt 1995.
