Strathbungo railway station

Strathbungo
The former station building in 2010
General information
Location	Strathbungo, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55°50′16″N4°16′24″W / 55.837817°N 4.273253°W / 55.837817; -4.273253
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
1 December 1877	Opened [1]
28 May 1962	Closed [1]

Strathbungo railway station was a railway station serving the village of Strathbungo, Renfrewshire, (and later the city of Glasgow), Scotland. The station was originally part of the Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway.

History

The station opened on 1 December 1877, ^[1] and was located close to the junction between the lines to Glasgow St Enoch via Gorbals Junction (opened the year before the station itself, in 1876) and the older route towards Glasgow Central (first opened in 1848 by the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway).

It closed to passengers permanently on 28 May 1962. ^[1]

Today little remains of the station at rail level. The former booking office building on the bridge above was in use as a local shop until 2022 when it was demolished during work to fully electrify the line, ^[2] The work also involved the removal of the nearby footbridge (installed in 1877 and a category C listed building) ^[3] which was subsequently relocated in Brechin where its station and local line were being restored by a heritage group, ^[4] while a new bridge over the power cables was installed in Strathbungo. ^[5]

Both lines meanwhile are still open as part of the Glasgow South Western Line, though the old route towards Gorbals has been freight-only since the closure of St Enoch station in 1966 - it now links into the West Coast Main Line at Larkfield Junction (using a section of the former Pollok and Govan Railway) as the section beyond Langside Junction onto the former City of Glasgow Union Railway was closed in 1973 and subsequently lifted.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Crossmyloof Line and station open		Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway		Gorbals Line partially closed; Station closed
		Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway		Eglinton Street Line open; Station closed

References

Notes

1. Butt (1995), page 222
2. In pictures: Demolition of Susie's Store in Glasgow's Southside Archived 8 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine , Catriona Stewart, Glasgow Times, 7 August 2022
3. "Darnley Road/Moray Place, Former Strathbungo Station, Footbridge". Historic Scotland. Archived from the original on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
4. Historic Glasgow railway bridge finds new home in Brechin, Project Scotland, 8 February 2023
5. Work underway on new Strathbungo footbridge, Rail Business Daily, 23 March 2023

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.