This line is open. The line is now known as the Cathcart Circle. There is an electric passenger train service provided around the circle, from Glasgow Central and back to it.
07/09/1880 | [Cathcart District Railway] Act receives Royal assent. |
16/12/1880 | [Cathcart District Railway] First Directors meeting. |
20/01/1883 | [Cathcart District Railway] First sod cut. |
01/03/1886 | [Cathcart District Railway] Cathcart Junction to Mount Florida opened for passengers. |
25/05/1886 | [Cathcart District Railway] Mount Florida to Cathcart opened to passengers. |
02/08/1886 | [Cathcart District Railway] Cathcart Junction to Cathcart opened for goods. |
19/07/1887 | [Cathcart District Railway] Extension of line Act receives Royal assent. |
19/03/1894 | [Cathcart District Railway] Cathcart (New) opened on Extension Line. |
02/04/1894 | [Cathcart District Railway] Extension line opened from Cathcart (New) to Muirhouse Junction for passengers and goods. |
01/10/1901 | [Cathcart District Railway] Langside station renamed Langside and Newlands. |
01/05/1903 | [Cathcart District Railway] Cathcart Junction renamed Pollokshields East Junction. |
01/01/1917 | [Cathcart District Railway] Pollockshields East and Crosshill stations closed for wartime economies. |
01/03/1919 | [Cathcart District Railway] Pollockshields East re-opened. |
01/06/1919 | [Cathcart District Railway] Crosshill re-opened. |
01/01/1923 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Caledonian Railway
Glasgow and South Western Railway
Callander and Oban Railway
Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Highland Railway
Cathcart District Railway
Killin Railway
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Committee
Brechin and Edzell District Railway
Dornoch Light Railway
Wick and Lybster Light Railway Grouped into London, Midland and Scottish Railway. |
10/12/1945 | [Cathcart District Railway] Murder at Pollockshields East. |
27/04/1956 | [Cathcart District Railway] Electrification authorised. |
25/01/1958 | [Cathcart District Railway] Cathcart station fire. |
07/07/1958 | [Cathcart District Railway] Diesel Multiple units appear on line. |
10/12/1961 | [Cathcart District Railway] Electrification complete. |
27/05/1962 | [Cathcart District Railway] Electric services commence. |
27/05/1962 | [Cathcart District Railway] Langside and Newlands renamed Langside. |
13/08/1966 | [Cathcart District Railway] Langside station fire. |
21/04/1976 | [Cathcart District Railway] Pollockshields East station burnt down. |
21/04/1976 | [Cathcart District Railway] Pollockshields East station burns down. |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This is the course of the original line, a branch to Cathcart.
This junction is formed between the Gordon Street Lines (the approach to Glasgow Central from Muirhouse South Junction [1st] opened in 1879) and the Cathcart District Railway of 1886.
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This is an island platform station with a building, not the original which was of typical Cathcart District Railway design.
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This is an island platform station. It retains the original single storey platform building with glazed canopies, typical of the Cathcart District Railway. The building has been renovated and canopies re-glazed on several occasions.
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This is an island platform station, with a narrow platform and original station building.
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This is an island platform station. The typical Cathcart District Railway station building has been replaced with a modern structure. The platform is largely located in a cutting.
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This junction is just south of Mount Florida station. Here the Cathcart District Railway of 1886 is met, on either side, by lines from the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway of 1904. Of the 1904 lines the south east bound line simply runs south and east to Cathcart East Junction, the northbound line burrows under the Cathcart District to reach Cathcart East. It passes under at a ...
More detailsThis was the terminus of the Cathcart District Railway from opening in 1886 to its extension in 1894. The site was to the immediate east of the present Cathcart station. The station was built around half a mile north of historic Cathcart at a site which was then rural and now urban. A signal box opened with the terminus and closed with the extension of the line. A replacement opened on the ...
More detailsThis was the extension from hard by the Cathcart terminus back to Glasgow, making the line a 'circle' (or 'speech bubble' perhaps).
This was the terminus of the Cathcart District Railway from opening in 1886 to its extension in 1894. The site was to the immediate east of the present Cathcart station. The station was built around half a mile north of historic Cathcart at a site which was then rural and now urban. A signal box opened with the terminus and closed with the extension of the line. A replacement opened on the ...
More detailsCathcart station has an island platform, original station building with glazed canopies, and is above road level. It is an intermediate station on the Cathcart Circle. The north east end of the station is on the girder bridge above the White Cart Water. A former entry arch from Old Castle Road is blocked.
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This is a four way junction. Two lines of the Cathcart Circle from Glasgow Central, one via Crosshill and via Maxwell Park, meet a line from Neilston and a line from Newton. The junction allows a train via Crosshill to run to Neilston and a train via Maxwell Park to run to Newton. Unfortunately the latter passes close to Cathcart but does not serve it.
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This is an island platform station. The original station building has not survived, nor has its British Railway replacement. The original survived in somewhat unattractive cut back form for a number of years.
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Pollokshaws East Goods, to the south of Pollockshaws East, was on the east side of the line and served from the south. The station's signal box was on the west side of the line opposite the goods yard. It opened with the line and closed in 1961 when replaced by Cathcart Power Box and Muirhouse Junction box.
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This is an island platform station. The station is built on a bridge over the White Cart Water.
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This is an island platform station. The original station building has not survived.
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This goods yard was to the west of Maxwell Park. The yard was on the south side of the line, approached from the west. ...
More detailsThis is a fine island platform station which retains its original two storey station building. Access to the station is by means of a footbridge which passes through the building at the first floor level, there being steps down to the platform.
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This is an island platform station. The original station building, which was the same design as that at Maxwell Park, has very unfortunately not survived having been demolished in the late 1980s.
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This is a double junction opened in 1894 to complete the Cathcart District Railway. It provides a connection across the older 1849 Glasgow Harbour and General Terminus Railway to the Glasgow Central approach lines. Rather than cross that line on the level a double junction was formed.
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To complete access to the loop a link was required at Muirhouse.
This is a double junction opened in 1894 to complete the Cathcart District Railway. It provides a connection across the older 1849 Glasgow Harbour and General Terminus Railway to the Glasgow Central approach lines. Rather than cross that line on the level a double junction was formed.
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This junction opened at the north end of a short 1894 connection which was made to complete the Cathcart District Railway. Rather than cross the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway on the level a double junction was created at Muirhouse Central Junction, the southern end of the connection. Opening this created a duplicate section of line between the north junction and ...
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