Dumbarton Central railway station
Dumbarton Central 
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| Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Breatann Meadhain | |
View of Dumbarton Central station, looking east
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| Location | |
| Place | Dumbarton |
| Local authority | West Dunbartonshire |
| Coordinates | 55°56′47″N 4°34′02″W / 55.9465°N 4.5673°WCoordinates: 55°56′47″N 4°34′02″W / 55.9465°N 4.5673°W |
| Grid reference | NS397755 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | DBC |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Owned by | Network Rail |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.736 million |
| – Interchange |
0.133 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.756 million |
| – Interchange |
0.140 million |
| 2013/14 |
 0.708 million |
| – Interchange |
0.117 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.742 million |
| – Interchange |
 0.117 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.751 million |
| – Interchange |
0.112 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | SPT |
| History | |
| Original company | Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway & Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway & North British Railway |
| Post-grouping | LMS & LNER |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dumbarton Central from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Dumbarton Central railway station serves the town of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line and the North Clyde Line, 15 3⁄4 miles (25.3 km) northwest of Glasgow Queen Street.
The station was opened on 15 July 1850 by the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway on their route from Balloch Pier to Bowling, where travellers could join steamships on the River Clyde to get to Glasgow. Connections with the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway at Dalreoch Junction and at Bowling put the station on a through route between Glasgow Queen Street and Helensburgh Central by 1858. The company was subsequently absorbed by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in 1862 and eventually became part of the North British Railway three years later. However, in 1891, the North British was forced to come to an agreement with the rival Caledonian Railway to give the latter access to Balloch (and the Loch Lomond steamships) over C&DJR metals in order to prevent the building of a competing route by the Caledonian company - this resulted in the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway arriving from Possil via Maryhill Central in 1896. Trains on the West Highland Railway also began serving the station following its completion on 1 August 1894 and these continue to call here to this day.
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