Partick Central railway station

"Partick Central railway station" redirects here. Not to be confused with Kelvinhall subway station.

Kelvin Hall railway station
The former station building , latterly used as an auction house and demolished in 2007
General information
Location	Partick, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55°52′09″N4°18′03″W / 55.8693°N 4.3007°W / 55.8693; -4.3007
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
1 October 1896	Opened as Partick Central [1]
15 June 1959	Renamed as Kelvin Hall [1] [2]
5 October 1964	Station closed to passengers (line closed to Stobcross) [1]
23 October 1978	Station completely closed (freight service from Yoker)
28 January 2007	Station building demolished

Kelvin Hall railway station (previously known as Partick Central) was a station serving the Partick area of the city of Glasgow. Built in the 1890s by the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway Company, it sat on a line that ran along the north bank of the River Clyde from Stobcross to Dumbarton.

History

As Kelvin Hall Station, 1966

Looking beneath the station building, the trackbed has been lifted but the platform edge remains visible

The station was renamed Kelvin Hall in 1959, as it was in the vicinity of the building of that name, and was close, but not attached to, the Partick Cross station on the Glasgow Subway.

Passenger and goods services to the station ceased in 1964 when it closed as part of the Beeching cuts to rail services across the UK. The station building was later used as a workshop and an auction house before lying empty for a number of years. The remains of the platforms and trackbed, which were underneath the station building, have been removed but the railway's route is fairly discernible. The station's goods yard served as a site for travelling people and as a scrap merchants.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Stobcross now named Exhibition Centre Station open; Line partially open		Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway operated by Caledonian Railway		Partick West Line and station closed

Redevelopment of site

The site had been empty and awaiting redevelopment when in 2004 it emerged that the supermarket chain Tesco wished to develop a 24-hour operation there, in the face of local opposition. Tesco had the station building demolished on 28 January 2007, before planning permission had been given for the development from Glasgow City Council. ^{[3] [4]}

• 
  Demolition in progress
• 
  Demolition complete

However, as at 2023 the site is occupied by West Village student accommodation to the west and modern flats to the east. ^[5]

References

Notes

1. Butt (1995), p. 181
2. Butt (1995), p. 130
3. "Flattened ... by Tesco". Evening Times. Herald & Times Group. 30 January 2007. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
4. Video of Demolition
5. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Glasgow/@55.8695039,-4.300559,301m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x488815562056ceeb:0x71e683b805ef511e!8m2!3d55.8616704!4d-4.2583345!16zL20vMGh5eHY?hl=en&entry=ttu

Sources

• 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.
• Partick Central station on navigable OS map
• The Disused Partick Central Station