Dumbarton East Scottish Gaelic:Dùn Breatann an Ear[1]
General information
Location	Dumbarton,West Dunbartonshire Scotland
Coordinates	55°56′33″N4°33′15″W / 55.9426°N 4.5542°W /55.9426; -4.5542
Grid reference	NS405750
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	DBE
History
Original company	Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
1 October 1896	Opened[2]
Passengers
2019/20	0.428 million
2020/21	38,516
2021/22	0.191 million
2022/23	0.253 million
2023/24	0.302 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Dumbarton East railway station serves the town ofDumbarton in theWest Dunbartonshire region ofScotland. Thestation is managed byScotRail and is served by trains on theNorth Clyde Line, 15 miles (24 km) west ofGlasgow Queen Street.

Unlike the majority of the North Clyde line stations, this is anisland platform, betraying itsLanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway origins. At the time of electrification byBritish Railways in 1961, theNorth British Railway's formation from Bowling was abandoned (except a short spur to serve Bowling Oil Terminal), with a short link line between the North British and Caledonian formations being constructed. The North British formation is regained between Dumbarton East andDumbarton Central station at the site of the junction between the two railways.

As of March 2025, the typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) and trains per day (tpd) is:^[3]

• 2 tph toEdinburgh Waverley viaGlasgow Queen Street (low-level) (semi-fast)
• 2 tph toAirdie viaSinger andGlasgow Queen Street (low-level)
• 2 tph toBalloch
• 2 tph toHelensburgh Central

The typical service on Sundays is:

• 2 tph toEdinburgh Waverley viaSinger andGlasgow Queen Street
• 1 tph toMotherwell viaYoker,Glasgow Central andWhifflet
• 1 tph toLarkhall via Yoker, Glasgow Central andHamilton Central
• 2 tph to Helensburgh Central
• 2 tph to Balloch

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bowling orDalmuir		ScotRail North Clyde Line		Dumbarton Central
	Historical railways
Bowling (L&D) Line partially in use; Station closed		Caledonian Railway Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway		Dumbarton Central Line open; Station open

• Awdry, Christopher (1990).Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 1-8526-0049-7.OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987].Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps.ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7.OCLC 60251199.OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989).Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0.OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000).Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers.ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1.OCLC 228266687.
• RAILSCOT on the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway

• Video footage of Dumbarton East Railway Station
• Media related toDumbarton East railway station at Wikimedia Commons

• Buildings and structures in Dumbarton
• Railway stations in West Dunbartonshire
• Former Caledonian Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1896
• Railway stations served by ScotRail
• SPT railway stations
• 1896 establishments in Scotland

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