Anderston
Location type
Station
Names and dates
Anderston Cross (1896-1959)
Anderston (1979-)
Opened on the Glasgow Central Railway.
Open on the Argyle Line.
Description
This is an island platform station. There is a ticket office at street level, below the Kingston Bridge, a motorway bridge.
The platform was exposed on its north (eastbound) side and platform area covered with a glazed canopy. There was no goods yard. The site was immediately west of Anderston Cross. The original street level building, with a main block of two storeys, was by [[John James Burnett] but was demolished in 1967 around the time the Anderston area was being re-developed and preparations for the Kingston Bridge were in progress.
The signal box here closed in 1956, taken over by a new power box using coloured lighting. The line closed to passengers in 1959 and completely in 1965. It re-opened as part of the Argyle Line in 1979.
The re-opened station building is in the shadow of the Kingston Bridge on a traffic island in the midst of a busy road junction. At track level the west end of the eastbound platform is open air.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
Nearby stations Anderston Charing Cross [GC and DR] Glasgow Central Low Level Glasgow Central Central Station Broomielaw Hoist Exhibition Centre Finnieston [1st] Bridge Street St Enoch [Subway] Buchanan Street [Subway] Glasgow St Enoch Shields Road [Subway] West Street [Subway] Cowcaddens [Subway] Bridge Street [Subway] | Other railway and industry locations Stobcross Street Tunnel Anderston Quay Anderston Tunnel Hyde Park Works [1st] Lancefield Diesel Engine Works Springfield Quay Windmillcroft Quay Springfield Quay Lancefield Quay Kingston Dock Finnieston Tunnel General Terminus General Terminus Quay Windmillcroft Quay Tourist/other Mitchell Library |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Dates
| 05/11/1979 | Glasgow Central Railway The Argyle Line; Stobcross to Strathclyde Junction and Rutherglen Junction re-opened to passengers. Stations at; Finnieston [2nd] , Anderston, Glasgow Central Low Level, Argyle Street, Dalmarnock and Rutherglen. |
