Kelvinhall subway station

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Kelvinhall
Scottish Gaelic: Taigh Cheilbhinn [1] Glasgow Subway.svg
Kelvinhall Station Entrance Feb 2023.png
General information
Location7 Dalcross Path
Partick, Glasgow, G11 5RA [2]
Scotland
Coordinates 55°52′16″N4°18′02″W / 55.87111°N 4.30056°W / 55.87111; -4.30056
Operated by SPT
Platforms2 (island platform)
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
ParkingNo [2]
Bicycle facilitiesNo [2]
AccessibleNo [3]
History
Opened14 December 1896
Rebuilt16 April 1980;44 years ago (1980-04-16)
Previous namesPartick Cross (1896–1977)
Passengers
2018Increase2.svg 0.686 million [4]
Preceding station Glasgow Subway.svg SPT Following station
Partick
anticlockwise / inner circle
 Glasgow Subway Hillhead
clockwise / outer circle
Location
Kelvinhall subway station
Notes
Passenger statistics provided are gate entries only. Information on gate exits for patronage is incomplete, and thus not included. [7]

Kelvinhall ( Partick Cross until 1977) is an underground station on the Glasgow Subway, renamed after the nearby Kelvin Hall. It is located in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland, near to many of the city's best known tourist destinations including:

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There was previously a Kelvin Hall railway station, but it was unattached to the subway station, which was at any rate still known as Partick Cross at the time of that station's closure in 1964 as part of the Beeching axe.

The station entrance is located off Dumbarton Road at the end of a narrow arcade of shops below flats. The station retains its original island platform layout and has no escalators. The renovation work at Kelvinhall station during the 1977–1980 modernisation of the Subway was not as extensive as most of the other stations on the network: other than Cessnock, it is the only station to retain its original entrance and surface buildings, which would be virtually invisible from the street without the signage.

Kelvinhall (under its former name of Partick Cross) is one of the stations mentioned in Cliff Hanley's song The Glasgow Underground. [8]

The Glasgow Subway is operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT).

First Glasgow operated bus routes 2, 3, 8, 77, 90, M4 and N2 serve the station. [9] Other bus routes that serve Kelvinhall are the riversider service 100, operated by Community Transport Glasgow, [10] routes 189 and 190, operated by Hobson Travel and ARG Travel, [11] and routes X25 and X25A, operated by Stagecoach West Scotland. [12]

Past passenger numbers

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  11. ↑ "Bus Timetable - 189/190" (PDF). SPT. 5 February 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
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