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.
Nearby stations 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] West Street | North Street Works Stobcross Street Tunnel Anderston Quay Anderston Tunnel Hyde Park Works [1st] Stobcross Rivet, Bolt and Nut Works Lancefield Diesel Engine Works Cranstonhill Tool Works Springfield Quay Windmillcroft Quay Springfield Quay Lancefield Quay Kingston Dock Finnieston Tunnel Tourist/other Mitchell Library |
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. |
10/08/1896 | Glasgow Central Railway Maryhill Central to Glasgow Central Low Level to Glasgow Cross opened. Maryhill Central, Kirklee, Botanic Gardens, Kelvin Bridge, Stobcross, Anderston Cross and Glasgow Central Low Level stations opened. |
03/08/1959 | Glasgow Central Railway Stobcross and Anderston Cross stations closed. |
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. |