Alexandria Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Alexandria Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Alexandria Railway Station; Alexandria And Bonhill Station
Canmore ID 197387
Site Number NS37NE 135
NGR NS 39307 79912
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/197387
- Council West Dunbartonshire
- Parish Bonhill (West Dunbartonshire)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS37NE 135 39307 79912
Station [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1992.
(Location cited as NS 393 799). Alexandria Station, opened 1850 by the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Rly. Formerly a two-platform through station, now cut down to one. The main offices are on the up platform, in a single-storey, red-and-white-brick building on a rubble base. There is a tall signal-box of similar construction.
J R Hume 1976.
This intermediate station on the Balloch branch of the former North British Rly was opened (as Alexandria Station) by the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Rly on 15 July 1880. It was renamed Alexandria and Bonhill Station in January 1935, but reverted to the original name in 1962.
The station remains in regular use by passenger traffic, within the electrified Glasgow suburban network.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 January 2006.
R V J Butt 1995.
