Anniesland railway station

3+3⁄4 miles (6.0 km) west of Glasgow Central (Low Level), on the North Clyde Line4+1⁄4 miles (6.8 km) west of Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level), and is the terminus of the Maryhill Line6+1⁄4 miles (10.1 km) away from Glasgow Queen Street (High Level). The station is served by ScotRail, as part of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network.

History

Originally called Great Western Road, ^[2] the station was opened by the North British Railway in 1874 on their route linking the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway at Maryhill to Queens Dock. The site is now occupied by the Scottish Exhibition Centre, on the north side of the River Clyde (the Stobcross Railway). It became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the network's privatisation.

The line towards Westerton, which was opened some years after the Maryhill line in 1886 as part of the Glasgow City and District Railway, was electrified in 1960, along with the line southwards to Jordanhill and Hyndland during the North Clyde Line modernisation scheme. The chord from Maryhill, which was part of the original Stobcross Railway route, remains diesel operated. This chord was closed completely in 1985 and lifted three years later, after being disused since 1980; it was relaid and reopened in 2005, when the Maryhill Line was extended as part of the project to reopen the railway to Larkhall on the Argyle Line.

After the 2005 reopening, there had been no physical link between the two routes here; the single line from Maryhill Park Junction terminated in its own separate bay platform (no. 3) on the eastern side of the station and the two routes were under the control of different signalling centres. However, in late 2015, Network Rail carried out a programme of works to connect the Maryhill chord to the North Clyde Line, just north of Anniesland station. ^[3] This was done to provide a diversionary route from the main Edinburgh to Glasgow line into Glasgow Queen Street Low Level while the High Level station was shut during 2016 for tunnel works; however, it is intended that the new connection be permanent. ^[4]

In October 2024, new lifts were opened allowing the station to be accessed step-free. ^[5]

Services

A Maryhill Line service

ScotRail operates the following typical weekday service, in trains per hour (tph): ^[6]

• 1 tph to Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level).
• 2 tph to Airdrie, via Glasgow Queen Street
• 2 tph to Balloch, via Dumbarton Central
• 2 tph to Dalmuir
• 2 tph to Larkhall, via Glasgow Central
• 2 tph to Milngavie
• 2 tph to Springburn, via Glasgow Queen Street.

Anniesland Scottish Gaelic: Fearann Anna [1]
Looking north with a Class 156 sitting in the Maryhill Line terminus platform on the right
General information
Location	Anniesland, Glasgow, Scotland
Coordinates	55°53′23″N4°19′18″W / 55.8898°N 4.3217°W / 55.8898; -4.3217
Grid reference	NS548687
Managed by	ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	ANL
History
Original company	Stobcross Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
20 October 1874	Station opened as Great Western Road
9 January 1931	Station renamed Anniesland
Passengers
2020/21	0.173 million

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Terminus		ScotRail Maryhill Line		Kelvindale
Hyndland		ScotRail Argyle Line		Westerton
Hyndland		ScotRail North Clyde Line		Westerton
	Historical railways
Partickhill		North British Railway Stobcross Railway		Maryhill
connection to Stobcross railway		North British Railway Glasgow City and District Railway		Westerton
Whiteinch Victoria Park		North British Railway Whiteinch Railway		connection to Stobcross railway
Scotstounhill		North British Railway Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway		connection to Stobcross railway

References

Citations

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. "The Claythorn Story: Transport". Claythorn Community Council. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
3. "Service Alterations - Anniesland Station" (PDF). ScotRail. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
4. "Edinburgh to Glasgow works". Rail Engineer. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
5. Mitchell, Nicole (5 October 2024). "Train station becomes step free as accessibility project completed". Glasgow Times . Retrieved 24 November 2025.
6. "Train timetables". ScotRail. 18 May 2025. Retrieved 12 December 2025.

Sources

• 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.

External links

• The station on a navigable O.S. map