Gallowgate Central

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Gallowgate Central (1892-1916)

Where: Glasgow City, Scotland
Opened on the Glasgow City and District Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station to the south of Bridgeton Cross South Junction. The station was in a deep dressed stone cutting.

The platforms stretched from Anderson Street (now Lambert Street) to Elcho Street. The central portions of the platforms, between Anderson Street and Tureen Street, were covered by glazed canopies. The street level booking office and waiting rooms building was to the north west on Anderson Street. A footbridge behind the street level building linked to the platforms.

The platforms remain intact. The street level building was demolished in 1980. The cutting is often heavily overgrown until access requires clearance.

Bridgeton Cross South Junction (Gallowgate Central Junction) was to the north west (beyond a tunnel under Anderson Street and the Gallowgate), a junction between the lines to High Street (via [[Gallowgate Tunnel) and St Enoch (via [[Barrack Street Tunnel). To the south east the line continued through Bridgeton Central Tunnel to Bridgeton Central.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
03/01/2023




Chronology Dates

01/06/1892Glasgow City and District Railway
Bridgeton Cross (later Bridgeton Central) branch opened. Stations; Gallowgate Central, Bridgeton Cross [NB].
01/04/1893City of Glasgow Union Railway
Glasgow and South Western Railway services through the St Johns Tunnel to Gallowgate Central and on to Bridgeton begin.
01/01/1917Glasgow City and District Railway
Gallowgate Central closed.
  /  /1980Glasgow City and District Railway
Gallowgate Central building demolished.