Eglinton Street railway station

Eglinton Street
Location
Place	Port Eglinton
Area	Glasgow
Coordinates	55°50′47″N 4°15′39″W / 55.8465°N 4.2609°WCoordinates: 55°50′47″N 4°15′39″W / 55.8465°N 4.2609°W
Operations
Original company	Caledonian Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Platforms	6
History
1 July 1879	Opened (as per Glasgow Herald notice[1]
28 February 1909	Opened (as documented by Butt)[2]
1 February 1965	Closed[2]
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Legend
City of Glasgow Union Railway Glasgow Central Glasgow Central Railway St Enoch River Clyde parts of former station reused as carriage sidings Glasgow Bridge Street Main Street(CGUR) Cumberland Street(CGUR) Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway City of Glasgow Union Railway Gorbals Eglinton Street Southside Polloc and Govan Railway General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway Pollokshields East Cathcart District Railway Pollokshields West Strathbungo Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway Cathcart District Railway

Eglinton Street railway station was a railway station approximately one mile south of Glasgow Central, in the Port Eglinton district of Glasgow.

History

Sources published in the late 20th century claim that this station opened on Sunday 28 February 1909,^[2] which would have been highly unlikely given Scotland's sabbatarian culture at the time. Contemporary sources, such as railway notices, timetables, maps and Post Office Directories, show that the station existed nearly 30 years before that date.

When the station opened, on 1 July 1879, it allowed Caledonian Railway trains from Edinburgh and Lanarkshire, which had previously terminated at Southside to reach Bridge Street to connect with trains for Greenock and Wemyss Bay, with through carriages being provided from Edinburgh to stations on the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway and Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway.^[1] These continued to terminate at Bridge Street even after Central Station had opened on 1 August 1879.^[3]

On 19 March 1883, there was a collision between two trains at Eglinton Street station in which four people died and many more were injured.^[4] The crash involved the 6:15pm train from Central Station to East Kilbride and the 5pm train from Edinburgh to Glasgow Central, which had stopped at Eglinton Street Station. The driver of the Edinburgh train failed to heed the signal against the train leaving the station. The East Kilbride train had left Central on time and had a clear signal to proceed. It was slowing down when it collided with the Edinburgh train which was getting up steam. The drivers and firemen of both trains survived the crash, having been violently thrown from their engines.^[5]

Opened by the Caledonian Railway on the former routes of the Cathcart District Railway and Polloc and Govan Railway on the southern approached to Glasgow Central, Eglinton Street station became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station was located in the routes to the:

• Two platforms - Cathcart Circle, the Barrhead, East Kilbride and Kilmarnock lines
• Four platforms - West Coast Main Line

The station was closed in 1965.^[2]

The site today

Some parts of Eglinton Street station remain intact today, including sections of the platforms and access towers from the station platforms.

Route

References

Notes

1. Caledonian Railway notice in Glasgow Herald, 1 July 1879
2. Butt (1990), page 90
3. Notice from Caledonian Railway, published in Glasgow Herald, 1 August 1879
4. The People's History of Glasgow, 1899, page 38
5. Glasgow Herald, 20 March 1883

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
• Eglinton Street Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

• Photographs and historical maps of Eglinton Street Railway Station from its origins in 1879