Kelvinside railway station explained

Kelvinside
Status:Disused
Borough:Kelvinside, Glasgow
Country:Scotland
Coordinates:55.8844°N -4.3095°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:2
Original:Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway
Pregroup:Caledonian Railway
Postgroup:London Midland and Scottish Railway
Years:1 October 1896
Events:Opened[1]
Years1:1 January 1917
Events1:Closed
Years2:1 June 1919
Events2:Re-opened
Years3:1 July 1942
Events3:Closed

Kelvinside railway station was located on Great Western Road, next to the current Gartnavel General Hospital in the Kelvinside area of Glasgow, Scotland. Part of the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway services ran through the station from Glasgow city centre to Maryhill in the north of the city and beyond. The line from the station to Crow Road railway station passes under the current site of Hyndland railway station on the Argyle and North Clyde lines.

It was a two platform station, with a nearby goods yard. Upon closure the line as part of the Beeching Axe the area has now been redeveloped with housing. The former station building was designed by Sir John James Burnet and was subjected to numerous arson attacks while it was closed but now houses a restaurant called '1051 GWR'. Previously, the building housed a restaurant and bar called 'Carriages' but a fire in December 1995 left just a shell of masonry and lay as a ruin for many years before reopening in its present incarnation.

The Caledonian Railway monogram "CR" is still carved into the stone on the building's north facade.

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Notes and References

  1. Butt (1995), page 130