Shields Road subway station explained

Shields Road
Style:Glasgow Subway
Type:Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Rathad Shields<ref name="gaelic">{{cite web |url=https://www.ainmean-aite.scot/glasgows-gaelic-underground/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004071104/https://www.ainmean-aite.scot/glasgows-gaelic-underground/ |title=Glasgow's Gaelic Underground |website=[[Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba]] |first=Jake |last=King |date=12 July 2020 |archive-date=4 October 2022 |access-date=17 February 2023
Address:30 Cornwall Street
Kingston, Glasgow, G41 1AH[1]
Country:Scotland
Coordinates:55.8503°N -4.2744°W
Structure:Underground
Platform:2 (island platform)
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes; 839 parking spaces
Bicycle:Yes (bike hire and parking)
Accessible:No[2]
Opened:14 December 1896
Operator:SPT
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:14

Shields Road subway station is a station of Glasgow Subway, serving the Pollokshields and Kingston areas of Glasgow, Scotland. Nearby is Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Scotland Street School Museum. This was one of four (now three[3]) stations which has Park and Ride facilities.

The station has been left in an industrial area by post-war reconstruction and is isolated from surrounding areas by the M8 motorway and approach roads for the Kingston Bridge. There were 460,000 passengers in the 12 months to 31 March 2005.[4] These trips were largely generated by the adjacent 'Park & Ride' car park. The car park was rebuilt with over 800 spaces in a project that ended in September 2006.

The east end of the car park is closer to the entrance of West Street subway station.

The station is actually on Scotland Street, not Shields Road. There has been some consideration of changing its name.

Shields Road is one of the stations mentioned in Cliff Hanley's song The Glasgow Underground.[5]

Past passenger numbers

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maps & stations . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230115125231/https://www.spt.co.uk/travel-with-spt/subway/maps-stations/ . spt.co.uk . Strathclyde Partnership for Transport . 15 January 2023 . 16 February 2023.
  2. Web site: Accessibility & mobility . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221107171456/https://www.spt.co.uk/travel-with-spt/subway/accessibility-mobility/ . 16 February 2023 . 7 November 2022 . spt.co.uk . Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.
  3. Web site: Subway car park axed to build M74 missing link . 2008-02-17 . 19 February 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090219002333/http://eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2047579.0.0.php . live .
  4. http://www.spt.co.uk/publications/stats2005/s&t2005.pdf Statistics & trends 2005
  5. Web site: YouTube - The Glasgow Underground . . 9 January 2015 . 2 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191102175734/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_YbGldcuKQ . live .
  6. Web site: Freedom of Information request: Subway station patronage - 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012. Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 18 December 2012. WhatDoTheyKnow. 9 February 2019. 9 February 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190209180353/https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/140056/response/343036/attach/html/5/Letter%2018%20December%202012.pdf.html. live.