Cardross train station

You can reach 50 stations directly from Cardross on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Dumbarton Central, with 70 trains a day.

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• 50 direct destinations
• 1,527th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 40 parking spaces

Direct trains from Cardross

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 13 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Cardross

Cardross is on the North Clyde Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Cardross station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Cardross station on 31 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 7 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 3 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 08:00 to 09:00 on the Tuesday, with 3 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Cardross station is

156,448 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,527th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Cardross and Craigendoran than any other pair: 53,192 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 35 stations instead of 50, a drop of about 30%. Saturday runs to 53.

Nearest other stations

• Woodhall 2.0 miles
• Port Glasgow 2.3 miles
• Renton 2.7 miles
• Bogston 2.8 miles
• Dalreoch 3.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Cardross, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Port Glasgow Upper · 2.5 miles
• Jamestown · 4.1 miles
• Balloch Pier · 4.1 miles
• Lynedoch · 4.1 miles
• Greenock Princes Pier · 4.3 miles
• Upper Greenock · 4.3 miles

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Facilities at Cardross station

Cardross is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday: 07:25 to 09:45 · Friday: 07:25 to 10:15 · at weekends: closed

Parking at Cardross station

• Station Car Park 40 spaces, 4 accessible
  free

Cycle parking: 5 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.

Getting to Cardross station

Cardross station is in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.

The nearest motorway junction is M8 J31 (West Ferry Interchange), 4.3 miles south-east.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Cardross station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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