Anderston
Location type
StationNames and dates
Anderston Cross (1896-1959)Anderston (1979-)
Station code: AND National Rail ScotRail
Where: Glasgow City, Scotland
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 carrying the M8 over the River Clyde just to the west of the Glasgow city centre.
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.
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StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
Chronology Dates
| 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. |
| 03/06/1956 | Glasgow Central Railway Stobcross East, Anderston, Glasgow Central Low Level, Glasgow Cross, Glasgow Green, Bridgeton Cross [CR] Junction signal boxes closed during conversion to colour light signalling. The boxes were replaced by new panels in the boxes at Stobcross and Bridgeton Cross [CR] Junction. |
| 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. |
