Shields Road railway station

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Shields Road
Shields Road railway station (site), Glasgow (geograph 6220581).jpg
Location Pollokshields, Glasgow
Scotland
Coordinates 55°50′52″N4°16′32″W / 55.8477°N 4.2755°W / 55.8477; -4.2755 Coordinates: 55°50′52″N4°16′32″W / 55.8477°N 4.2755°W / 55.8477; -4.2755
Platforms2, latterly 4
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company City of Glasgow Union Railway
Pre-grouping Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways
Post-grouping LMS
Key dates
12 December 1870Opened [1]
1 January 1917Closed [1]
1 April 1925Amalgamated with Shields station and Pollokshields station into newShields Road [1]
14 February 1966Closed [1]

Shields Road railway station was a railway station in Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland. Opened in 1870, it was expanded in 1925 when the adjacent Pollokshields and Shields stations were amalgamated into it. It closed in 1966.

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History

The station was built by the City of Glasgow Union Railway on the original 1840 line from Paisley to Glasgow. It opened in the early 1870s, [2] around the time when the line was being diverted from Bridge Street to the new St Enoch station in the city centre, initially terminating at Dunlop Street.

Contemporary maps show that there were no stations at Shields Junction, prior to the general reorganisation of rail links between Paisley and Glasgow in the 1870s, in preparation for the opening of the new city centre terminals.

From 1885, however, after Shields station opened, there were three adjacent stations at this site, each with their own booking offices fronting Shields Road. Shields Road station was the largest of the three, sharing one of its platforms with Pollokshields station, which had been squeezed into the northern part of the complex, on the new track which had been laid to establish a link between Paisley and the Caledonian Railway’s proposed Glasgow Central station.

The three stations at Shields Junction were amalgamated in 1925, [2] creating a larger Shields Road station, which was in use until 1966, when train services to St Enoch ended.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Butt (1995), page 210
  2. 1 2 Smith, W.A.C. and Anderson, P. (1993)

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