Disused railway lines and closed stations in West Dunbartonshire

15 miles of disused railway
8 closed stations
13 stations open today
3 named lost lines

West Dunbartonshire has 15 miles of disused railway and 8 closed stations, against 13 stations still open today. That is 0.6 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Branch, with 5.8 miles of its route inside West Dunbartonshire.

See West Dunbartonshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 15 miles of lost railway in West Dunbartonshire break down as 13 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 2.2 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 0.5 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in West Dunbartonshire

3 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside West Dunbartonshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Branch	5.8
Forth and Clyde Branch	4.6
Dalmonach Branch	0.8

Closed railway stations in West Dunbartonshire

All 8 closed and former stations in West Dunbartonshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in West Dunbartonshire

13 stations in West Dunbartonshire still have a train service. The busiest are Dalmuir (767,842 a year), Dumbarton Central (483,282 a year), Balloch (444,334 a year), Singer (358,320 a year) and Dumbarton East (339,724 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, East Dunbartonshire, Glasgow, Stirling, North Ayrshire and Argyll and Bute.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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