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Dumbarton Central railway station serves the town of Dumbarton in the West Dunbartonshire region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line and the North Clyde Line, 15¾ miles (25 km) north west of . == History == The station was opened on 15 July 1850 by the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway〔(Railscot - Caledonian & Dumbartonshire Junction Railway ) www.railbrit.co.uk; Retrieved 2013-10-10〕 on their route from to , 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 and 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 via in 1896.〔(Railscot - Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway ) www.railbrit.co.uk; Retrieved 2013-10-10〕 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. The station was built with two island platforms to permit convenient interchange between the various services that called, although only three faces remain in use. The Helensburgh & Balloch lines were electrified by British Railways as part of the 1960 North Clyde Line electrification scheme, but most of the L&DR route was closed (other than the short section through neighbouring ) when passenger services to Possil via were withdrawn on 5 October 1964 as a result of the Beeching Axe.
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