Alexandria railway station serves the town of

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. The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by their trains on the

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. It is sited northwest of , measured via

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and

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History

Alexandria station geograph-3226919-by-Ben-Brooksbank

Opened by the

Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway The Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway (C&DJR) was a Scottish railway opened in 1850 between Bowling and Balloch via Dumbarton. The company had intended to build to Glasgow but it could not raise the money. Other railways later rea ...

on 15 July 1850, it became part of a joint

London, Midland and Scottish Railway The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally u ...

and

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

line during the

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of 1923. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on

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in 1948. The line through the station was double until 1973, but now only one track and platform are in use. When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the

privatisation of British Rail The privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into private hands. Begun in 1994, it had been completed by 1997. The deregulation of the industr ...

Facilities

Alexandria railway station, West Dunbartonshire - geograph

Unlike Renton, the only other intermediate station on the Balloch line, Alexandria does have a ticket office and a car park. It also has a help point, bench and bike racks located on the platform, plus a payphone in the ticket office. Although the ticket office entrance from the car park is not step-free, there is step-free access to the platform (and from the platform to the ticket office).

Passenger volume

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

There is a half-hourly daily service to northbound; southbound, the service is also half-hourly, but trains run to on weekdays and Saturdays, and - on Sundays - to (via ) or (via

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) alternately (i.e., hourly trains from Balloch to Motherwell/Larkhall).eNRT May 2022 Edition, Table 206

References

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External links

Video footage of Alexandria Station

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