Ashfield railway station, Glasgow
Ashfield | |
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Scottish Gaelic: Achadh an Uinnsinn | |
Location | |
Place | Milton |
Local authority | Glasgow |
Coordinates | 55°53′20″N 4°14′54″W / 55.8888°N 4.2484°WCoordinates: 55°53′20″N 4°14′54″W / 55.8888°N 4.2484°W |
Grid reference | NS595684 |
Operations | |
Station code | ASF |
Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
Number of platforms | 2 |
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
Annual rail passenger usage* | |
2010/11 | 54,662 |
2011/12 | 69,676 |
2012/13 | 76,390 |
2013/14 | 74,160 |
2014/15 | 80,470 |
Passenger Transport Executive | |
PTE | SPT |
History | |
Original company | British Rail |
6 December 1993 | Station opened |
National Rail – UK railway stations | |
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ashfield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
UK Railways portal |
Ashfield railway station is a railway station serving the Milton area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the Maryhill Line, 2½ miles (4 km) north of Glasgow Queen Street, a short distance west of Cowlairs North Junction. It has two side platforms. Services are provided by Abellio ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT).
History
Opened in 1993 under British Rail management during the Sectorisation era introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail came into effect on 1 April 1994. It was one of five new stations to be opened as part of the Maryhill Line project, with three of them (including this one) on new sites. The line through the station is however a lot older, being opened back in 1858 by the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway and has been used since the latter end of the 19th century by West Highland Line passenger & freight trains to reach the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway main line at Cowlairs and hence Queen Street High Level.
Services
Monday to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service eastbound to Glasgow Queen Street and westbound to Anniesland, where connections are available for North Clyde Line services.[1]
Since 18 May 2014, a limited hourly Sunday service now operates on this line - trains call between 09:30 and 19:00.
Notes
- ↑ Table 232 National Rail timetable, May 2016
References
- Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
- Geograph
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Glasgow Queen Street | Abellio ScotRail Maryhill Line |
Possilpark and Parkhouse |