Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway

v t e Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway
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also known as Dumbarton & Balloch Joint Railway
Balloch Pier Balloch Central Balloch Forth and Clyde Junction Forth & Clyde Junction Rly Alexandria Renton Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Dalreoch Junction Dalreoch Dumbarton Central Dumbarton Joint Line Junction Dumbarton East (L&D) connecting line opened 1960 Bowling (L&D) Bowling Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway

The Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway^[a] (C&DJR) was a Scottish railway opened in 1850 between Bowling and Balloch via Dumbarton. The company had intended to build to Glasgow but it could not raise the money.

Other railways later reached Dumbarton, and the C&DJR was taken over by the larger Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in 1862. It later became simply a branch of the larger North British Railway network.

When the rival Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway^[a] proposed a line to Balloch running close nearby, agreement was reached to make part of the former C&DJR line jointly owned, and this was done in 1896, forming the Dumbarton and Balloch Joint Railway.

Most of the original C&DJR line continues in use at the present day.

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