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Old Kilpatrick Old Kilpatrick ( sco, Auld Kilpaitrick, gd, Cille Phàdraig meaning "Patrick's church"), is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It has an estimated population of 4,820. It belonged to the parish of Old Kilpatrick which itself was only a f ...

West Dunbartonshire West Dunbartonshire ( sco, Wast Dunbairtonshire; gd, Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann an Iar, ) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. The area lies to the west of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's commuter to ...

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Kilpatrick railway station serves the village of

in the

region of

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...

. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the

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, 11 miles (18 km) west of

Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...

and the

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on Sundays. Part of the station sits under the northern end of the

Erskine Bridge The Erskine Bridge is a multi span cable-stayed box girder bridge spanning the River Clyde in west central Scotland. The bridge connects West Dunbartonshire with Renfrewshire and can be used by all types of motor vehicles, cyclists and pedestrian ...

with Lusset Park overlooking the station from above. Access to Station Road is from the south side on the westbound platform. The Lusset Glen is also accessible from the westbound platform.

Facilities

The station is a split, two-platform station with ramp access and a small ticket office. There is no auto-announcement system at present. In September 1989, an

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took place and the two men held up the member of staff with

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s. After this crime, the station has been unmanned until the present day. A woman was also killed in an apparent suicide attempt; she was struck by a train in October 2011 at the station.

Services

2006/07

From Kilpatrick, there is a half-hourly service to Glasgow Queen Street usually to . After 18:00, the trains run to . On Sundays the service uses the

to on Sundays. Westbound there is a half-hourly daily service to .

2016

The service remains half hourly in the May 2016 timetable but on weekdays and Saturdays, westbound trains now end at and eastbound trains run to via . Sunday services run half-hourly to Balloch and to Glasgow Central Low Level (and thence alternately to Motherwell via and to ).

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Video footage of Kilpatrick Station
Railway stations in West Dunbartonshire Former North British Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1858 SPT railway stations Railway stations served by ScotRail {{Scotland-railstation-stub