Drumchapel Railway Station

Based in one of the better areas of the Drum, this small station is a decent Scotrail offering and a safe enough place for any commuter to visit.
With staff on duty most of the time and a spacious neighbouring car park, it’s better equipped than you may expect and best of all, there is a taxi rank a stones throw away, while regular buses also pass by.
Four trains an hour head to Glasgow way and you can expect to be in the city centre within 15 minutes.

For most people new to Glasgow, «The Drum» is considered a bit of a no-​go area. During my bleak few months living in nearby Knightswood, this was one of the many distant train stations I’d hike to in order to avoid the smell of Tesco’s extra strong lager and jobseeker’s allowance on the bus.
Perhaps surprisingly, the station is surrounded by what I could only call «aspirational» housing, including some incredibly large Victorian numbers, and is in a fairly quiet area a good bit away from the less welcoming 50s /​60s embodiment of Drumchapel. As you’d expect, several trains pass each hour and 15 minutes should see you into town.

Chaffinches and blue tits singing in the nearby sycamore trees greeted me as I alighted at Drumchapel station. As if there could be a bigger possible contrast, I soon noticed a group of neds horsing around in the waiting room of the opposite platform, on this dark weekday afternoon (whatever happened to a thing called school, or work?).
Drumchapel is served by trains between Balloch and Dalmuir to the west, and Glasgow Queen Street/​Central, Drumgelloch and Larkhall to the east. The trains pass stop by roughly every 15 minutes. There is also a regular bus service that stops right at the entrance to the station — very useful. These are the, very frequent, no. 9’s for the most part.
There is a ticket office at Drumchapel and the new blue ScotRail colour scheme certainly brightens up the station’s somewhat dilapidated appearance.