City Of Glasgow Union Railway
Introduction
The major feature of this line was Glasgow St Enochs station. This station was famous for its quality hotel. The station has been closed an completely demolished. There were two glazed roofs side-by-side here situated above the Glasgow streets. The original smaller version of the station was called Dunlop Street. The site of the station is now several car-parks and the St Enochs shopping centre.
This railway is open to freight between Shields Road and High Street. Between Bellgrove and Springburn the line is open to passenger trains. A new line (the Cowlairs Chord) has been brough into use to allow trains to run down the line from High Level Glasgow Queen Street. The line has a link to the line to Cumbernauld and trains from High Level Queen Street use this link. The section of the line between Gorbals and Larkfield is closed and uplifted.
Dates
| / /1864 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Act receives Royal assent |
| / /1870 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Shields Road station opened |
| 02/06/1870 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] First Bridge over the Clyde in central Glasgow opened. |
| 12/12/1870 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Four platform terminus, Dunlop Street opened (temporary version of St Enochs) |
| 12/12/1870 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Opened between Pollockshields and Dunlop Street. Main line services start to use the new station, local services continue to use Bridge Street. |
| 19/12/1870 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Gallowgate opened, used as a terminus by the [North British Railway]s [Coatbridge Branch] until the College terminus was complete. |
| 19/12/1870 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Main Street opened |
| 01/06/1871 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] The [Glasgow and South Western Railway] Bus trains start running between Bellgrove and Shields Road. |
| 01/01/1872 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Main Street Gorbals station opened. |
| 16/08/1875 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Bellgrove to Spingburn opened for goods, Haghill Junction to Parkhead Junction opened. |
| 17/10/1876 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Dunlop Street closed |
| 17/10/1876 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Glasgow St Enoch opened. Through service from London St Pancras via the [Midland Railway] starts. |
| 17/10/1876 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Connection from Gorbals on the [City of Glasgow Union Railway] to South Side on the [Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway] opened. |
| 01/08/1877 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Gorbals opened to replace South Side. |
| 01/01/1881 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Bus train service to Shields Road extended to Alexandra Park (later called Alexandria Parade). |
| / /1883 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Warehouses built on the junction of Bell Street and High Street for the [Glasgow and South Western Railway]. Approach was via a reversing loop built on the line from Gallowgate to High Street East Junction. |
| 29/06/1883 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] St Enochs station and approach lines south of Bellgrove taken over by the [Glasgow and South Western Railway]. Lines north of Bellgrove taken over by the [North British Railway]. |
| 01/10/1883 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Bus train service to Shields Road extended to Barnhill. |
| / /1884 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] St Enochs locomotive shed opened. This was built in the triangle of lines bounded by St Enochs station, Saltmarket Junction and Clyde Junction. The lines ran south from the shed to Clyde Junction. The area under the shed was notorious for oil dripping down on passers by. |
| 01/01/1887 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Bus train service to Shields Road extended to Springburn. |
| 01/02/1887 | [Glasgow City and District Railway] [Coatbridge Branch] ([North British Railway]) [City of Glasgow Union Railway] [Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway] [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] [Stobcross Railway] Circular service introduced by the [North British Railway]. |
| 01/10/1892 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Gallowgate closed. One platform taken up and replaced with further through line. |
| 01/04/1893 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] [Glasgow and South Western Railway] services through the St Johns Tunnel to Gallowgate Central and on to Bridgeton begin. |
| / /1896 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] [Glasgow and South Western Railway] [North British Railway] City of Glasgow Union Railway absorbed and divided between Glasgow and South Western Railway and North British Railway. |
| 07/08/1896 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Company wound up. |
| / /1898 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] A further 6 platforms at St Enoch start being built |
| / /1898 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] St Enochs to Port Eglinton Junction quadrupled. |
| 30/09/1900 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Main Street closed, replaced by Eglinton Street (later renamed Cumberland Street). |
| / /1901 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Expanded St Enoch station opened complete with re-built Clyde bridge was accommodates 4 tracks. |
| / /1902 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Construction complete |
| 01/10/1902 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] The [Glasgow and South Western Railway] Bus trains stop running due to Tram competition. |
| 01/10/1902 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Gallowgate station closed. |
| 12/01/1903 | [Glasgow City and District Railway] [Coatbridge Branch] ([North British Railway]) [City of Glasgow Union Railway] [Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway] [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] [Stobcross Railway] Circular service withdrawn. |
| 27/07/1903 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] A busy Isle of Man boat train from Ardrossan over-runs the buffers at platform 8 in St Enochs and two carriages are telescoped and hit the stations glass roof. 16 were killed and 27 injured. The train was apparently terminated in a shorter platform than usual due to renovation work and the driver, Henry Northcott, had assumed a greater braking distance. |
| 01/03/1910 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Garngad closed. |
| 01/02/1913 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] [Glasgow and South Western Railway] services from the [City of Glasgow Union Railway] to Bridgeton Central are withdrawn. The link between the [City of Glasgow Union Railway] and [Glasgow City and District Railway] is closed. |
| 01/11/1924 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Shields station closed |
| 01/04/1925 | [Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway] [City of Glasgow Union Railway] New Shields Road station opened incorporating the [Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway] Pollockshields station, [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Shields Road station and [Paisley Canal Line] Shields stations. |
| 01/06/1928 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Gorbals closed and its platforms cut back. |
| / /1934 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Gallowgate closed completely |
| / /1935 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] St Enochs locomotive shed closed and used as a locomotive store |
| / /1935 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] St Enoch locomotive shed closed, but continues in use as a stabling and storage point. |
| /10/1965 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Haghill Yard closed |
| / /1966 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] St Enochs station closed |
| 14/02/1966 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Cumberland Street closed. |
| 14/02/1966 | [Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway] [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Shields Road closed. |
| 18/04/1966 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Glasgow St Enoch (Gorbals Junction) to Strathbungo Junction closed to passengers |
| 27/06/1966 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Glasgow St Enoch to Shields Junction closed to passengers |
| 27/06/1966 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Glasgow St Enoch closed |
| 05/06/1967 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Glasgow St Enoch to Clyde Junction closed to Parcel traffic. |
| 23/06/1973 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Glasgow St Enoch (Gorbals Junction) to Strathbungo Junction closed to freight |
| / /1975 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] St Enoch station clock removed |
| / /1977 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] St Enoch station starts to be demolished after having been a car-park. Rubble used to fill the Queens Dock (Glasgow). |
| / /1981 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Haghill Junction to Parkhead North closed. |
| / /1984 | [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Dis-used warehouses at Bell Street start to be converted into flats |
| 06/03/1989 | [Coatbridge Branch] ([North British Railway]) [City of Glasgow Union Railway] Crash at Bellgrove station when a train leaves Bellgrove station passing a red light (SPAD) and runs onto the single lead of the Springburn line striking a train leaving the branch. 2 were killed and 40 injured. |
