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Cathcart District Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Cathcart station from the air (bottom right), aerial view of Hampden (left) and Kings Park (top centre).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7255.jpg "Cathcart")
![Pollokshaws East on its viaduct. Building now demolished.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7360.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![Cathcart bound train enters Pollokshaws East.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7361.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![Pollokshields East and Muirhouse Junction now called Muirhouse Central Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7450.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![Cathcart looking east. The line to the left runs to Glasgow Central and to the right runs to Newton.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7484.jpg "Cathcart")
![Mount Florida station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7485.jpg "Mount Florida")
![Crosshill station located in a deep cutting.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7487.jpg "Crosshill")
![303 leaving Shawlands station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7511.jpg "Shawlands")
![Station clock at Shawlands with helpful hand-drawn hands.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7512.jpg "Shawlands")
![Station among the tenements.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7513.jpg "Queens Park")
![Queens Park during its blue period.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7514.jpg "Queens Park")
![Pollokshields West before demolition.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7515.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![Dynamism at Pollokshields West. Stationmaster takes a break from clearing the platform.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7516.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![Langside station with Newton bound train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7517.jpg "Langside")
![Outer Circle 303 at Maxwell Park before renovation.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7518.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![Fairburn tank 42057 calls at Mount Florida with a train in the early 1960s.<br><br>[David Stewart //]](/images/46000/46219.jpg "Mount Florida")
![A northbound Cravens DMU crossing Battlefield Road on the approach to Mount Florida in the early 1960s. The building on the right is the former Langside tram depot, opened in 1901 and converted to a bus garage from 1957. Operations ceased here in 1984 and housing now occupies the site.<br><br>[David Stewart //]](/images/47000/47935.jpg "Mount Florida")
![A Cathcart Circle train calls at Queens Park in the early 1960s behind a Fairburn 2-6-4 tank.<br><br>[David Stewart //]](/images/47000/47964.jpg "Queens Park")
![A Gloucester RC&W DMU calls at Queens Park in the early 1960s.<br><br>[David Stewart //]](/images/48000/48025.jpg "Queens Park")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T 42055 with a southbound train leaving Mount Florida in the early 1960s.<br><br>[David Stewart //]](/images/48000/48173.jpg "Mount Florida")
![<I>Snooker Tam of the Cathcart Railway</I>. Cover of R W Campbells book about the adventures of the station boy at the imaginary Kirkbride station.<br><br>[David Panton //1919]](/images/19000/19626.jpg "Plates, signs and notices")
![Cathcart Circle trains (inner) approaching Pollokshaws (East). C.R. 0.4.4T 15183. 1940 or 1941.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1940]](/images/12000/12118.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![Cathcart Circle trains (inner) approaching Pollokshaws (East). C.R. 0.4.4T 15225. 1940 or 1941.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1940]](/images/12000/12119.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![Cathcart Circle trains (outer) leaving Pollokshaws (East). Drummond 0.6.0 17468. 1940 or 1941.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1940]](/images/12000/12120.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![Cathcart Circle trains (outer) leaving Pollokshaws (East). C.R. 0.4.4T 15263. 1940 or 1941. [Railscot note: the original is double exposed.]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1940]](/images/12000/12121.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![Pollokshaws (East) station.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1941]](/images/15000/15597.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![Fowler Mogul leaving Pollokshaws (E). Outer Circle.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1941]](/images/15000/15598.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![Pollokshaws (East) station. C.R. 0.4.4T 15201 entering on inner train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow /07/1948]](/images/7000/7394.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![Outer train stopping at Mount Florida. CR 0.4.4T 15170.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 21/06/1949]](/images/7000/7465.jpg "Mount Florida")
![Pollokshields station (east). Pickersgill 4.4.0 54465 on inner train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/07/1949]](/images/7000/7468.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73058 passing Cathcart North Junction on 19 April 1957 with a train for Uplawmoor. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/04/1957]](/images/49000/49751.jpg "Cathcart North Junction")
![C.R. 18.5 0.6.0 57555 on Kirkhill train. Cathcart North Junction.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 28/08/1957]](/images/9000/9945.jpg "Cathcart North Junction")
![Hughes/Fowler <I>'Crab'</I> 2-6-0 no 42740 brings a train south past the site of the original Cathcart platform on 28 August 1957. [Ref query 6719]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 28/08/1957]](/images/51000/51654.jpg "Cathcart")
![The goods yard at Mount Florida, looking south in the summer of 1957.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 28/08/1957]](/images/55000/55228.jpg "Mount Florida")
![Fairburn 2-6-4 tank 42191 gets the <I>L&A</I> distant at Cathcart North Junction on 30 August 1957 with a train for Whitecraigs.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/08/1957]](/images/49000/49285.jpg "Cathcart North Junction")
![73055 at Cathcart North Junction on 30 August 1957 with a train for Whitecraigs. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/08/1957]](/images/50000/50131.jpg "Cathcart North Junction")
![40153 passing Queens Park on 5 September 1957 with a train for Neilston High. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/09/1957]](/images/49000/49649.jpg "Queens Park")
![A DMU approaches Cathcart station from the Mount Florida direction on 16 May 1960. The goods yard stands on the right and the train is about to cross over Old Castle Road to reach the platform. [The subsequently extended island platform here now reaches a point some distance beyond the gap.]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/05/1960]](/images/49000/49118.jpg "Cathcart")
![Fairburn 2-6-4 tank 42171 passing Mount Florida on 30 May 1960 with the 5.12pm Glasgow Central to Uplawmoor. Note the northbound DMU standing at platform 1. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/05/1960]](/images/49000/49078.jpg "Mount Florida")
![BR standard tank 80055 bringing a train into the recently extended platform at the north end of Cathcart station on 2 December 1960. [See image 49118] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/12/1960]](/images/53000/53586.jpg "Cathcart")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T 42059 brings a train into Queens Park station in 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/45000/45543.jpg "Queens Park")
![A DMU approaching Crosshill station from the city in 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/45000/45552.jpg "Crosshill")
![A DMU pulls away from the stop at Mount Florida heading south in 1962<br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/45000/45576.jpg "Mount Florida")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T 42125 brings a train into Mount Florida in 1962. <br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/45000/45666.jpg "Mount Florida")
![A Fairburn tank runs light engine through Mount Florida in 1962. (The Cathcart Circle was used from time to time as a means of turning locomotives from Glasgow Central.)<br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/45000/45777.jpg "Mount Florida")
![A city bound DMU about to enter Crosshill station in 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/46000/46066.jpg "Crosshill")
![A Fairburn 2-6-4 tank about to enter Crosshill station in 1962 with a train from Glasgow Central.<br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/46000/46616.jpg "Crosshill")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42060 calls at Queens Park station in 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/46000/46727.jpg "Queens Park")
![A Standard 2-6-4T is about to take a southbound train away from Mount Florida station in 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/46000/46755.jpg "Mount Florida")
![Standard 2-6-4 tank 80056 running light engine through Crosshill station in 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/46000/46842.jpg "Crosshill")
![Fairburn 2-6-4 tank 42266 with a train at Crosshill in 1962, shortly before the line was electrified. <br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/47000/47163.jpg "Crosshill")
![Ex-Caledonian 4-4-0 no 54465 stands at Cathcart on 27 May 1962 with a special bound for Beith Town.<br><br>[John Robin 27/05/1962]](/images/47000/47852.jpg "Cathcart")
![Polmadie Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73075 runs through Pollokshaws East on a damp and overcast Saturday 11 April 1964 with a football special from Gourock to Kings Park. <br><br>[John Robin 11/04/1964]](/images/46000/46652.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![The Mount Florida notice board in 1972. The timetable, warning as to trespass and remarkable bargain fares to the city. According to the ThisIsMoney website approximately 91p single and £1.69 return in today's money. About half the present fare for a turn-up-and-go ticket.<br><br>[Ian Millar //1972]](/images/59000/59071.jpg "Mount Florida")
![EMU 303077 on a Cathcart Inner Circle service at Pollockshaws East station on the 9th of November 1978. Today it is reduced to a <b>Bus Shelter</b>. The Church tower is at the corner of Kilmarnock Road and Newlands Road.<br><br>[Ian Millar 09/11/1978]](/images/59000/59090.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![The fine building at Pollokshields West. Now demolished. Disgraceful.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7850.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![Pollokshields West looking to Muirhouse South Junction. Station building now demolished. Strathbungo booking office in distance.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7852.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![Inner circle train at Pollokshields West.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7853.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![Maxwell Park is probably one of the classiest suburbs south of the Clyde, and as the train leaves Glasgow it's interesting to try and spot who's going to alight there, even among the fairly comfortable-looking patrons characteristic of this line (I'm drawing no further comparisons). When this photograph was taken in October 1987 other stations on the western side of the Cathcart Circle still had original buildings, but now Maxwell Park remains the only one with any building (discounting shelters). It has been smartened up, has <I>heritage</I> lighting and looks fine, despite being unstaffed [see image 20318].<br>
<br><br>[David Panton /10/1987]](/images/25000/25555.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![ScotRail Open Day at Maxwell Park station on Sunday 20 June 1993. On display are 37427 <I>Highland Enterprise</I>, 26001 <I>Eastfield</I>, 90017 and EMU 303048.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven 20/06/1993]](/images/26000/26876.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![303 061 on a Newton service at Queens Park in July 1997.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1997]](/images/19000/19363.jpg "Queens Park")
![303 090 arrives at Cathcart with an Outer Circle working in August <br>
1997. Coming in from the right are the lines from Newton to Glasgow via Maxwell Park, the same route this train is about to take. This looks like it would have been an ideal place for a junction station but, perhaps oddly, it never was. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton /08/1997]](/images/27000/27097.jpg "Cathcart")
![303 047 pulls into Crosshill with a returning circle train in September 1997.<br><br>[David Panton /09/1997]](/images/17000/17264.jpg "Crosshill")
![Space for a station at Crosshill in 1886 was either grudged or was rather expensive. With high retaining walls either side there's a feeling of gloom on that narrow platform for most of the day. Photographed in September 1997, looking towards Mount Florida. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton /09/1997]](/images/27000/27183.jpg "Crosshill")
![Maxwell Park in March 1998 and the glazing had been removed from the <br>
canopies, which I suppose was one way of solving a maintenance problem. Happily this unstaffed station went on to undergo an award-winning restoration [see image 7459] and is a credit even to one of Glasgow's smarter suburbs. It's never too difficult to guess which passengers are going to alight here.<br><br>[David Panton /03/1998]](/images/28000/28812.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![A skeletal-looking Maxwell Park station in March 1998, before restoration. [See image 7458] for the 'after' picture.<br><br>[David Panton 01/03/1998]](/images/51000/51653.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![A Cathcart Outer Circle train formed by 303 027 calls at Mount Florida in March 1998.<br><br>[David Panton 11/03/1998]](/images/21000/21607.jpg "Mount Florida")
![303 077 at Mount Florida in July 1999 with a direct train for Glasgow.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1999]](/images/18000/18854.jpg "Mount Florida")
![Trains on the Cathcart Circle meet at Queens Park in July 2005. View south east towards Victoria Road with the tenements of Torrisdale Street standing above the station on the right. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/07/2005]](/images/31000/31238.jpg "Queens Park")
![A Cathcart Circle train (L) passes a Neilston line service at Queens Park station in July 2005. View west from the Victoria Road entrance. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/07/2005]](/images/32000/32117.jpg "Queens Park")
![Looking from Pollokshields West to the booking office of the former Strathbungo station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7451.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![Footway across Maxwell Park which enters the two-level station building for access to the island platform.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7452.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![Outer Circle train at Maxwell Park.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7453.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![Platform canopies and new lighting at Maxwell Park.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7454.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![Platform access at Maxwell Park. Interesting mini fences.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7455.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![Railway companies and regulators come and go but Maxwell Park, amazingly, still remains.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7456.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![A view from the bridge. From the footbridge looking west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7457.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![The restored station building at Maxwell Park, seen from the west in March 1988.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7458.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![Star turn. The station building at Maxwell Park seen from the east. Even the grey cabinets are red here!<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7459.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![A two tier station building.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7460.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![A lane takes passengers to the bridge over the island platform at Pollokshields West.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7461.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![Pollokshields West now sadly without two tier station building.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7462.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![The bridge over Pollokshields West today. No building.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/03/2006]](/images/7000/7851.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![A Newton - Glasgow Central service calls at Pollokshaws East on 11 August 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/2006]](/images/44000/44831.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![View over Pollokshields East station from Albert Drive in August 2006. In the background a northbound train is passing the disused signal box at Muirhouse Junction heading for Glasgow Central.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/2006]](/images/51000/51564.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![A Neilston - Glasgow Central train calls at Pollokshields East on a fine summer morning in August 2006. Platform view looking north towards Albert Drive.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/2006]](/images/51000/51902.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![Just a mile and a half from its destination at Glasgow Central, 314201 pulls away from Pollokshields West on a warm and sunny Friday morning in August 2006 with a Cathcart Circle commuter service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/2006]](/images/54000/54801.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![Class 67 67019 hauling empty Caledonian Sleeper stock away to be cleaned and made ready for the return trip to London<br><br>[Graham Morgan 26/08/2006]](/images/10000/10562.jpg "Muirhouse Junction")
![Class 90 90034 being hauled away with the empty Caledonian Sleeper stock to be made ready for the return trip to London<br><br>[Graham Morgan 26/08/2006]](/images/10000/10564.jpg "Muirhouse Junction")
![314201 at platform 1 1653 heading for Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 04/02/2007]](/images/13000/13483.jpg "Mount Florida")
![Station could do with a refurb... any ideas??<br><br>[Colin Harkins 04/02/2007]](/images/13000/13484.jpg "Mount Florida")
![Taken from overbridge entrance to Crosshill.... just screams refurbish me!!!<br><br>[Colin Harkins 04/02/2007]](/images/13000/13487.jpg "Crosshill")
![Looking past Muirhouse junction with a 156 in First ScotRail colours passing.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 10/02/2007]](/images/13000/13572.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![314201 heading towards Queens Park.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 10/02/2007]](/images/13000/13574.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![Very short welded track... looks a bit rickety. First signal under the control of Cathcart PSB C35c... this signal is automatic. Cathcarts first physically controlled signal is at Mount Florida.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 10/02/2007]](/images/13000/13606.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![Tapper found in the Signalling Panel of Cathcart PSB... believed to come from the old box at Williamwood. Last inspection date marked 10.05.61.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 18/02/2007]](/images/14000/14039.jpg "Cathcart")
![This building was my last charge as a Signaller.. Cathcart Power Signal Box. It controls the Cathcart Circle, Neilston Line and the Kirkhill Branch Lines. <br><br>[Colin Harkins 18/02/2007]](/images/14000/14040.jpg "Cathcart")
![Disused Walkway over the River Cart to Cathcart Station.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 18/02/2007]](/images/14000/14042.jpg "Cathcart")
![Tapper believed to come from the old box at Williamwood found in the Signalling Panel of Cathcart PSB.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 18/02/2007]](/images/14000/14044.jpg "Cathcart")
![Old Entrance to Cathcart Station. What a view from that missing brick!! [see image 14055]. In the distance you can just make out an old Light fitting hanging down at the bottom of the stairs which led to the island platform.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 18/02/2007]](/images/14000/14045.jpg "Cathcart")
![Old bricked up entrance to Cathcart Station from Old Castle Road, photographed in February 2007. Notice the missing brick.. what lies behind?? [See image 14045]<br><br>[Colin Harkins 18/02/2007]](/images/14000/14055.jpg "Cathcart")
![Looking through the hole in the wood covering up the lost void at Langside.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 26/02/2007]](/images/13000/13821.jpg "Langside")
![314211 just left Langside downhill for Glasgow Central on the Outer.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 26/02/2007]](/images/13000/13822.jpg "Langside")
![Staircase with canopy to the platform... canopy looks weathered.. looks tho it has stood the test of time!!<br><br>[Colin Harkins 26/02/2007]](/images/13000/13826.jpg "Langside")
![Island Platform at Langside... I like this photo.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 26/02/2007]](/images/13000/13827.jpg "Langside")
![Automatiac Signal C64 showing a Caution aspect.. the signal ahead is Red protecting the junction at Cathcart.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 26/02/2007]](/images/13000/13828.jpg "Langside")
![Was this an old Booking Office?? Anyone know??<br><br>[Colin Harkins 26/02/2007]](/images/13000/13829.jpg "Langside")
![Strathclyde Transport may have been done away with but this station sign reminds us of the old days.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 26/02/2007]](/images/13000/13830.jpg "Langside")
![Approach to Crosshill station from Mount Florida in the rain on 6 May 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2007]](/images/14000/14961.jpg "Crosshill")
![A station qualifying for the <I>Special</I> category. Maxwell Park in May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/14000/14899.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![Southern entrance to platforms at Mount Florida. May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/14000/14987.jpg "Mount Florida")
![Entrance to Langside station from Langside Drive. View south east along the island platform on Sunday morning 6 May 2007 - just before the rain!<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/14000/14988.jpg "Langside")
![Platform view looking north at Cathcart station on 6 May 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/15000/15054.jpg "Cathcart")
![View over Mount Florida on Sunday 6 May 2007 from the south end footbridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/17000/17734.jpg "Mount Florida")
![Entrance to Maxwell Park station from Terregles Avenue on a wet Sunday morning in May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/33000/33969.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![Looking along the island platform at Langside station, Glasgow, on Sunday 6 May 2007. View is south east towards Cathcart. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/45000/45521.jpg "Langside")
![The leafy entrance to Cathcart station from Delvin Road on a pleasant May morning in 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/47000/47346.jpg "Cathcart")
![Looking north from Fotheringay Road towards Terregles Avenue through the upper level of the station building at Maxwell Park on a wet Sunday morning in May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/51000/51337.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![<I>'Breathe in...'</I> View over Crosshill station in May 2007 - a lesson in efficient use of the available space.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/52000/52192.jpg "Crosshill")
![314 209 arrives at Crosshill on a Newton service on 13 October 2007. <br><br>[David Panton 13/10/2007]](/images/17000/17265.jpg "Crosshill")
![Football special comprised of a pair of 334s arrives at Mount Florida on 13 October 2007 following the six and a half minute journey from Glasgow Central. <br><br>[David Panton 13/10/2007]](/images/18000/18833.jpg "Mount Florida")
![314 213, heading for Neilston, calls at Pollokshields East on 13 October 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 13/10/2007]](/images/19000/19273.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![314 209 on a Newton service at Queens Park on 19 April 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 19/04/2008]](/images/19000/19451.jpg "Queens Park")
![314 209 for Neilston pulls into Cathcart on 14 June 2008 alongside one of the experimental small childrens waiting rooms...<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/2008]](/images/19000/19495.jpg "Cathcart")
![Standing under the canopy at Cathcart station on 14 June 2008 looking south. Coming in from the left is the line from Newton to Glasgow Central via Maxwell Park.<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/2008]](/images/19000/19556.jpg "Cathcart")
![314 212 bound for Newton stops at Langside on 9 August 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 09/08/2008]](/images/20000/20296.jpg "Langside")
![The driver of 314 208 bound for Newton on 9 August checks the doors on the monitors before leaving Maxwell Park.<br><br>[David Panton 09/08/2008]](/images/20000/20318.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![Newton bound service at Pollokshields West on 9 August 2008, EMU 314 212.<br><br>[David Panton 09/08/2008]](/images/20000/20323.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![314 208 calls at Langside on a service to Glasgow Central on 9 August 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 09/08/2008]](/images/21000/21518.jpg "Langside")
![A Cathcart Inner Circle service formed by 314 211 calls at Pollokshaws East on 20 August.<br><br>[David Panton 20/08/2008]](/images/20000/20369.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![314 216 on the Inner Cathcart Circle route calls at Shawlands on 20 August 2008<br><br>[David Panton 20/08/2008]](/images/20000/20417.jpg "Shawlands")
![Fresh lick of paint at Crosshill... new Scottish colours??<br><br>[Colin Harkins 23/08/2008]](/images/20000/20382.jpg "Crosshill")
![Example of the new Station signage at Crosshill on Glasgows South Side. The sign was replaced during the July/ August line closure <br><br>[Colin Harkins 23/08/2008]](/images/20000/20383.jpg "Crosshill")
![New lift facility almost installed at the Station<br><br>[Colin Harkins 23/08/2008]](/images/20000/20384.jpg "Mount Florida")
![New station signage at north entrance to Mount Florida station in August 2008. This is part of the agreement (including the new Saltire livery) announced by the Scottish government in April, that the First Scotrail franchise was to be extended to 2014. If you look closely the First Scotrail and SPT logos have gone... it now has the Saltire with the wording <I>ScotRail, Scotlands Railway</I>. <br><br>[Colin Harkins 23/08/2008]](/images/20000/20385.jpg "Plates, signs and notices")
![Photograph taken on the occasion of the opening of Maxwell Park Station community meeting room by Pollokshields Heritage. Left to right are Jim Cornell, Jack Kernahan, Niall Murphy, Karin Spalter and Tom Harris MP.<br><br>[John Yellowlees /01/2009]](/images/25000/25264.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![314203 rolls in to a wet Mount Florida station on a Cathcart outer circle service. This station, in addition to serving Hampden Park, also caters for Langside College, accessed directly from the station footbridge. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22666.jpg "Mount Florida")
![An Outer Circle service formed by 314203 leaves Mount Florida heading towards Cathcart. With footbridges at each end of the island platform, and this public footpath alongside the line, there are plenty of vantage points here if not a lot of variety among the trains.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22690.jpg "Mount Florida")
![A Newton to Glasgow (via the Outer Circle) train, formed by 314209, pauses by the distinctive entrance to Langside's elevated island platform. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22931.jpg "Langside")
![Mount Florida station's island platform and booking office building are seen from the northerly staircase entrance looking towards Cathcart as 314209 calls on its way to Neilston. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22968.jpg "Mount Florida")
![An outer circle service leaves Crosshill amidst the tenements on the south side of Glasgow.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/03/2009]](/images/23000/23072.jpg "Crosshill")
![314 201 call at Pollokshields West with a Newton to Glasgow Central service on 2 May 2009<br><br>[David Panton 02/05/2009]](/images/23000/23749.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![314 203 stands at a smart-looking Queens Park with a Cathcart Outer Circle train on 2 May 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 02/05/2009]](/images/23000/23765.jpg "Queens Park")
![Teatime on a hot June day at Pollokshields East and all windows are open as 314205 for Neilston takes commuters home.<br><br>[David Panton 01/06/2009]](/images/24000/24100.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![In order to turn the set so that the class 87 would be leading heading back south, the 'Electric Scot' railtour did a spin around the Cathcart Circle headed by Class 47 no 47786 'Roy Castle OBE'. 87002 was dead in tow at the rear.<br><br>[Michael Gibb 11/07/2009]](/images/24000/24543.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![87002 heads the return leg of the 'Electric Scot' railtour through Queens Park on 11th July. When was the last time a class 87 passed through here?<br><br>[Michael Gibb 11/07/2009]](/images/24000/24544.jpg "Queens Park")
![314 214 picks up speed as it approaches the end of the long platforn at Shawlands with a Circle train back to Glasgow Central on 8 August 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 08/08/2009]](/images/25000/25090.jpg "Shawlands")
![Photograph taken at Shawlands station on 8 August 2009 showing the orange image before last, and in front of it, the pre-Strathclyde branding image before that.<br><br>[David Panton 08/08/2009]](/images/25000/25138.jpg "Shawlands")
![314 202 approaches the (clearly) island platform at Langside with an Outer Circle working on 28 October 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 28/10/2009]](/images/26000/26061.jpg "Langside")
![314 202 pulls into Langside (once known as Langside & Newlands) with an Outer Circle service on 28 October 2009<br><br>[David Panton 28/10/2009]](/images/26000/26173.jpg "Langside")
![314 212 pulls into Maxwell Park with an Inner Circle working on 29 <br>
October. Class 314s, almost exclusive to the Cathcart lines, are at the bottom of the SPT electrics food chain and are sure to go in the cascade when 380s are introduced. They lack digitised announcements, in-train displays, toilets and even door buttons and the driver has to hand-crank the destination blind.<br><br>[David Panton 29/10/2009]](/images/26000/26139.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![In the fading light of a winter afternoon 314 204 is about to come to a halt at Pollokshields West, its first stop on a Cathcart Inner Circle working. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 20/01/2010]](/images/27000/27323.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![The island platform at Crosshill is unusually narrow. The ticket <br>
office is more like a booth with the window onto the platform and <br>
there's certainly no space for a waiting room. The benches on the <br>
platform are even in single file. Photographed in January 2010.<br><br>[David Panton 20/01/2010]](/images/27000/27352.jpg "Crosshill")
![Maxwell Park station won a preservation award 10 years ago. It's still looking extremely smart. In fact, the only thing that looks slightly weathered is the plaque commemorating the preservation award... This view is of the Inner Circle platform looking towards Glasgow Central on 16 October.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 16/10/2010]](/images/31000/31193.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![Maxwell Park station is neatly framed by roads. It is here <br>
photographed from the westerly bridge, looking east towards central <br>
Glasgow on 16 October. What kind of area is Maxwell Park? Let's just say you're more likely to see a waxed jacket and tweed cap or a <br>
headscarf on the platform here than you are at most other inner SPT <br>
stations you care to mention.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 16/10/2010]](/images/31000/31272.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![New Customer Information Screen at Langside seen on 27 November. <br>
Unlike previous installations of CIS at island stations the latest wave has a single screen for both platforms. Arrows are programmed in to make it clearer which platform is being referred to even if it gives the impression the numbers might swap over at any time! Note 'Burnside Sclyde': this is the name according to the National Ticketing System even though there is only one Burnside so spelled and Strathclyde was abolished 15 years ago. The NTS name of Newton is Newton (Lanark); this should really be 'Lanarks' but anyway the suffix is not displayed, presumably as it could suggest that the train was actually going to Lanark.<br><br>[David Panton 27/11/2010]](/images/31000/31739.jpg "Langside")
![314 211 approaches Mount Florida station heading for Glasgow Central on 27 November. High retaining walls are a feature of this part of the Cathcart Circle, giving a hemmed-in feel. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 27/11/2010]](/images/31000/31750.jpg "Mount Florida")
![314 207 runs into Pollokshields West with an Inner Circle service on 27 November. This is a station-rich part of Glasgow with Pollokshields East, Queen's Park, Crossmyloof and Maxwell Park all around a half-mile away. <br><br>[David Panton 27/11/2010]](/images/31000/31763.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![314 204 approaches Langside with a Cathcart Outer Circle service on 27 November 2010. Mary Queen of Scots' forces were defeated at Langside in 1568 in a family quarrel over her infant son. Not a lot went right for that woman<br><br>[David Panton 27/11/2010]](/images/31000/31847.jpg "Langside")
![On its way to Neilston on 27 November 314 212 leaves Mount Florida <br>
station behind. Mount Florida is the station for Hampden Park and on some match days at least sees non-stopping football specials from Glasgow Central: not a tremendous distance. For a Scottish name Mount Florida is quite comprehensible, showing that it is not ancient, going back no further than the early 1800s.<br><br>[David Panton 27/11/2010]](/images/31000/31862.jpg "Mount Florida")
![The island platform at Crosshill, looking towards Glasgow at spot on 1 o'clock, Saturday 5 February. A young man buys a ticket at the al-fresco ticket window while speaking on his mobile. How rude. Saying 'young man' and berating modern manners? I must be getting old; shoot me if I get worse. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 05/02/2011]](/images/32000/32644.jpg "Crosshill")
![314 214 on the Inner Circle line at Crosshill on 5 February with a service for Glasgow Central. Its arrival was heralded by the digital announcements peculiar to these parts. It's not the slightly actressy voice used on the rest of the Scotrail network; it's more demotic, shall we say, though falling short of Parliamo Glasgow.<br><br>[David Panton 05/02/2011]](/images/32000/32788.jpg "Crosshill")
![314205 takes the Cathcart route at Cathcart North Junction. Both the line on the left and the one to the right ultimately head left (east) for Newton. The single line on the right burrows under the Cathcart Circle. The tall building to the left of the train is Cathcart Signalbox. The train is just approaching what was the original terminus of the line, just shy of the river. View looks south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33366.jpg "Cathcart North Junction")
![A northbound sprinter passes the Muirhouse Central Junctions on the Glasgow Central approach lines of 1879. This is the view from the steps up to Albert Drive.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33541.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![Builder's plate for the span of the Albert Drive bridge which crosses the Cathcart Circle. The plate reads <br><center><i>JAMES GOODWIN&Co<br>IRON FOUNDERS<br>&<br>BRIDGE BUILDERS<br>MOTHERWELL.1886</i></center><br>which suggests this is the original bridge over the line. Goodwin must have been busy as they were also undertaking the Jubilee Bridge over the Hooghly River in India about the same time.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33548.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![An outer Circle train pauses at Pollokshields West. The modern shelter is hardly comparable with the old building, but at least gives some protection from the elements. It seems incongruous that the street level building at Strathbungo, closed since 1962 and seen in the distance, remains standing but then it was easier to give that over to other uses (currently 'Susies Store', no ').<br/><br/>It always <i>feels</i> to me like the station names should be Pollokshields North and South but a quick look at an OS map confirms the 'horizontal' distance is greater than the 'vertical' distance between Pollokshields East and West.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33557.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![314 208 takes an inner circle service south amongst the tenements of Maxwell Park drawing to a halt at the station of the same name. The park itself is off to the right over Terregles Avenue.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33601.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![Across Springkell Avenue from Maxwell Park passenger station was the goods station. This was on the east (or south) side of the line (the inner circle side) and was located to the left in this view which looks along the line to Cathcart. It was a fair size of yard having six sidings and a loop off the line and headshunt. The little trackside building in the background right looks suspect ... a railway staff house?<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33606.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![A short distance to the Cathcart side of Maxwell Park (and former goods yard) the Cathcart Circle line turns south to cross the B768 (Titwood Road) on a long and low girder. This March 2011 view looks west at the bridge.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33610.jpg "Maxwell Park")
![On the approach to Shawlands from the north the Cathcart Circle first crosses Shawmoss Road (seen here) and then the Barrhead line (off to the left). This view looks west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33614.jpg "Shawlands")
![Shawlands station viewed from the bridge over the Barrhead line. The line here looks a little bumpy, but then this is pretty telephoto. I'd never noticed before that many Cathcart Circle stations are built like island platforms on single track railways - one face being straight and the other curved. Then again it is a circle with most stations on curves so I should have thought that through. [See image 7511] for the same view, but considerably less telephoto, 24 years earlier. Building now gone, trains changed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33631.jpg "Shawlands")
![Jack Kernahan, in 'The Cathcart Circle' describes what's seen here thus<br/><br/><br>
'<i>The passengers on the trains were likely on this section to miss one of the principal features of the new line, namely the two four-apartment houses, provided for the station masters, which were built in the five arches of the viaduct carrying the line between the girder bridges at Rossendale and Pollokshaws Roads, the only evidence of the houses to the passengers being the chimneys growing from the parapets.</i>'<br/><br/><br>
The entrances are seen here in March 2011. These are on the east side of the line - Rossendale Road is off to the left and Pollokshaws road is immediately behind the camera. Both houses were in use as offices until recently.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33638.jpg "Shawlands")
![An outer circle train pauses at Shawlands station's curved platform face. The station is a little bare now without the station building. Between 1905 and 1907, only a few years after the line was extended to form a circle, a number of stations on the circle were provided with extra entrances - this photograph is taken from one of these, a footbridge at the north end of the station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33643.jpg "Shawlands")
![An outer circle service train draws to a halt at Pollokshaws East. The view is from Kilmarnock Road and looks west. [See image 7360] for the same view 24 years earlier.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33658.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![The entrance to Pollokshaws East on Kilmarnock Road is quite a grand affair, even with the lamp missing from the lampholder. Two castellated sets of steps climb to the entry stairway.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33666.jpg "Pollokshaws East")
![The entrance to Langside (and Newlands) station from Langside Drive. The view looks south with the station off to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33732.jpg "Langside")
![A Newton service (314 201) pauses at Langside station in March 2011. The 1970s 'lego brick' style station building has been replaced by a glass tank. The on-platform fencing, an attempt at 'revenue protection', has also gone. The original station building burned down on the 13th of August 1966 but struggled on for a while.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33734.jpg "Langside")
![A 314 heads for Cathcart away from Newlands.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33743.jpg "Langside")
![To the left is the line to Neilston and running away to the distance in the centre is the route to Langside. The photograph is taken through a fence at a location which was the trackbed of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway - this formerly passed Cathcart without being able to take trains from the Langside direction on to Newton as there was only a Neilston to Cathcart spur onto the Cathcart Circle west of the station (the two tracks in the foreground here). Langside to Newton trains were permitted by a new connection from Cathcart West Junction onto the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire and at the same time the 'bypass line' was lifted. [See image 8865] for a view of the former layout.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33753.jpg "Cathcart West Junction")
![Great Gardens volunteers Lee Ewens, Ross Connelly, Iain Borthwick and Angela Christie with ScotRail's external relations manager John Yellowlees (centre) with one of the new raised planters at Queens Park station.<br><br>[ScotRail 30/03/2012]](/images/4000/4976.jpg "Queens Park")
![This is a view of the Cathcart Circle bridge (right) and removed but later Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway bridge (left). The arch now houses <I>Beechings Bar</I>, seen here on 30 November 2013 looking north west across Clarkston Road.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 30/11/2013]](/images/45000/45471.jpg "Cathcart West Junction")
![A Cathcart Circle train leaves Mount Florida southbound on 15 May 2014. <br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 15/04/2014]](/images/47000/47348.jpg "Mount Florida")
![A northbound service calls at Mount Florida on 15 May 2014 on its way to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 15/05/2014]](/images/47000/47328.jpg "Mount Florida")
![A southbound train, heading for Neilston, calls at Mount Florida on 15 May 2014, with the tenements of McLennan Street standing in the background. <br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 15/05/2014]](/images/47000/47333.jpg "Mount Florida")
![The driver of a Neilston service check the doors while one of his customers humps his bike up the stairs to Victoria Road. I imagine it's space restraints on the island platforms of the Cathcart lines that mean that lifts and ramps are not (yet?) a feature.<br><br>[David Panton 30/05/2015]](/images/51000/51616.jpg "Queens Park")
![Something exotic at Mount Florida. The station has been adopted by <a href=http://www.urbanroots.org.uk/ target=external>Urban Roots</a>.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/09/2015]](/images/52000/52677.jpg "Mount Florida")
![This project led by James Dornan MSP has provided posters for over half-a-dozen suburban stations south of the Clyde featuring local attractions. Here's the one at Pollokshields East.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 17/12/2015]](/images/53000/53638.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![An ornate lamp-bracket remains at the Delvin Road entrance to Cathcart station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 12/01/2016]](/images/53000/53987.jpg "Cathcart")
![A Neilston service rolls in on 25/06/2016. Waiting passengers can take their pick (literally) from the strawberries or rhubarb in the foreground. Keeps you as regular as the trains, though we hope not as frequent.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 25/06/2016]](/images/55000/55906.jpg "Mount Florida")
![314210 is seen here at Mount Florida having had, at least to date, 37 years service. It was used at the re-opening of the Argyle Line (Glasgow Central Low Level) on the 1st of November 1979 when the Queen was the <I>Second Man</I>. [See image 59492]<br><br>[Ian Millar 24/01/2017]](/images/59000/59498.jpg "Mount Florida")
![An Inner Circle service calls at Cathcart on 04/03/2017. On the far left 'N' above the signal indicates that the road is set for a Neilston train. 'C' is displayed for circle trains.<br><br>[David Panton 04/03/2017]](/images/58000/58349.jpg "Cathcart")
![A 314 for Neilston at Pollokshaws East on 01/04/2017. Note that it still in SPT carmine and cream livery.<br><br>[David Panton 01/04/2017]](/images/58000/58865.jpg "Pollokshields East")
![320 317 with an incoming circle service at Pollokshields West on 01/04/2017. You have to wonder what the people of this fairly comfortable suburb have done to deserve these station 'facilities'.<br><br>[David Panton 01/04/2017]](/images/58000/58873.jpg "Pollokshields West")
![Crosshill has these extra safety notices, presumably because of the narrow<br>
<I>Cathcart Circle</I> island platform. 2nd September 2017<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2017]](/images/60000/60694.jpg "Crosshill")
![Rhubarb, rhubarb. Comings and goings at Mount Florida on 11 November 2017. A<br>
Circle service on the left takes the Cathcart line, as indicated by the toy signal. An incoming service draws in on the right.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 11/11/2017]](/images/61000/61803.jpg "Mount Florida")
