Cardonald railway station is located in the

Cardonald Cardonald (; ,
) is an outlying suburb of the Scotlan ...

district of

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, also serving parts of the

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neighbourhood located on the opposite side of the M8 motorway which runs adjacent to the railway. The station is managed by

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and is on the

Inverclyde Line The Inverclyde Line is a railway line running from Glasgow Central station through Paisley (Gilmour Street) and a series of stations to the south of the River Clyde and the Firth of Clyde, terminating at Gourock and Wemyss Bay, where it conn ...

History

The station opened on 1 July 1843 as Moss Road and closed in 1845.Butt, page 164 The station was reopened and renamed Cardonald on 1 October 1879. On 24 March 2008, a woman was hit by a train at Cardonald. She later died of her injuries.

Services

* 2tph to Glasgow Central * 2tph to

Gourock Gourock ( ; ) is a town in the Inverclyde council areas of Scotland, council area and formerly a burgh of the County of Renfrew in the west of Scotland. It was a resort town, seaside resort on the East shore of the upper Firth of Clyde. Its ma ...

The evening service is: * 1tph to

Wemyss Bay Wemyss Bay () is a village on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in Inverclyde in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is in the traditional county of Renfrewshire (historic), Renfrewshire. It is adjacent to Skelmorlie, North Ayrshire. The town ...

* 1tph to

* 2tph to Glasgow Central There is an hourly service each way on Sundays to Glasgow & Gourock.

Footnotes

References

* *Butt, R. V. J. (1995). ''The Directory of Railway Stations''. Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, .

External links

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