Duke Street railway station

Duke Street
Scottish Gaelic: Sràid an Diùic
Location
Place	Dennistoun
Local authority	Glasgow
Coordinates	55°51′32″N 4°12′44″W / 55.8590°N 4.2122°WCoordinates: 55°51′32″N 4°12′44″W / 55.8590°N 4.2122°W
Grid reference	NS616650
Operations
Station code	DST
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	80,080
2011/12	85,546
2012/13	0.104 million
2013/14	0.110 million
2014/15	0.119 million
History
Original company	City of Glasgow Union Railway
1 January 1881	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Duke Street from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Railways in Parkhead area
Legend
City of Glasgow Union Railway (CoGUR)Alexandra Parade The Switchback (CR) (CoGUR)Haghill Goods Kennyhill Goods(SB CR) (CoGUR)Duke Street Haghill Junction (CB NBR)Camlachie Goods Parkhead North(CB NBR) Coatbridge Branch (NBR) Parkhead Forge Siding(SB CR) Parkhead Forge Junction (GCR)Bridgeton Parkhead Stadium(GCR) Glasgow Central Railway London Road Goods(SB CR) London Road Junction (GCR)Dalmarnock Dalmarnock (1841)(SB CR) Strathclyde Junction Bridgeton Goods(GCR) River Clyde Glasgow Central Railway
Railways: CB NBR - Coatbridge Branch (NBR) CoGUR - City of Glasgow Union Railway (Joint G&SWR and NBR) GCR - Glasgow Central Railway (CR) SB CR - The Switchback (CR)

Duke Street Railway Station is a railway station in Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line, 1½ miles (2 km) north east of Glasgow Queen Street.

It was built as part of the City of Glasgow Union Railway which provided a link across the Clyde (between the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway at Shields Junction and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at Sighthill Junction). Though goods traffic began using the line in 1875, the station wasn't opened until 1881 with trains initially running as far as Alexandra Park (as it was then known). An extension to Barnhill followed two years later, but it wasn't until 1887 that they finally reached Springburn.^[1]

Electric operation at the station began in 1960 (using the 25kV A.C overhead system), when the branch from Bellgrove was incorporated into the North Clyde line electrification scheme. Through running to Cumbernauld began in May 2014 - prior to this a change at Springburn was required.

Services

Monday to Saturday there is a half-hourly service northbound to Cumbernauld and southbound to Glasgow Queen Street and beyond (usually to Dumbarton Central).

On Sundays, an hourly service between Partick and Cumbernauld call in each direction between 9am and 8pm^[2] (there was no service on Sundays prior to May 2015).

References

1. Railscot - City of Glasgow Union Railway Crawford, E Railscot; Retrieved 6 September 2016
2. Table 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016