Partick Central railway station

"Kelvin Hall railway station" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Kelvinhall subway station.
Partick Central

The former station building for Partick Central, latterly used as an auction house
Location
Place Partick
Area Glasgow
Coordinates 55°52′09″N 4°18′03″W / 55.8693°N 4.3007°W / 55.8693; -4.3007Coordinates: 55°52′09″N 4°18′03″W / 55.8693°N 4.3007°W / 55.8693; -4.3007
Operations
Original company Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway
Pre-grouping Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping LMS
Platforms 2
History
1 October 1896 Opened[1]
15 June 1959 Renamed as Kelvin Hall[1][2]
5 October 1964 Station closed to passengers (line closed to Stobcross)[1]
23 October 1978 Station completely closed (freight service from Yoker)
28 January 2007 Station building demolished
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Partick Central railway station was a station serving the Partick area of the city of Glasgow. Built in the 1890s by the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway Company, it sat on a line that ran along the north bank of the River Clyde from Stobcross to Dumbarton.

History

The station was renamed Kelvin Hall in 1959, as it was in the vicinity of the building of that name, and was close, but not attached to, the Partick Cross station on the Glasgow Subway.

Looking beneath the station building, the trackbed has been lifted but the platform edge remains visible

Passenger and goods services to the station ceased in 1964 when it closed as part of the Beeching cuts to rail services across the UK. The station building was later used as a workshop and an auction house before lying empty for a number of years. The remains of the platforms and trackbed, which were underneath the station building, have been removed but the railway's route is fairly discernible. The station's goods yard served as a site for travelling people and as a scrap merchants.

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Stobcross
now named
Exhibition Centre
Station open; Line partially open		   Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway
operated by Caledonian Railway
   Partick West
Line and station closed

Redevelopment of site

The site had been empty and awaiting redevelopment when in 2004 it emerged that the supermarket chain Tesco wished to develop a 24-hour operation there, in the face of local opposition. Tesco had the station building demolished on 28 January 2007, before planning permission had been given for the development from Glasgow City Council.[3][4]

References

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Butt (1995), page 181
  2. ↑ Butt (1995), page 130
  3. ↑ "Flattened ... by Tesco". Evening Times (Herald & Times Group). 30 January 2007. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  4. ↑ Video of Demolition

Sources

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