Anniesland
Location type
StationNames and dates
Great Western Road (1886-1931)Anniesland (1931-)
Station code: ANL National Rail ScotRail
Where: Glasgow City, Scotland
Opened on the Stobcross Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Anniesland via Maryhill.
Description
This is a three platform station on an elevated site. There are two through platforms and a bay platform at the north end of the southbound (city bound) platform for trains to Glasgow Queen Street High Level via Maryhill. The station is just east of Anniesland Cross.
To the south a large bowstring girder bridge crosses Great Western Road and to the north is Knightswood South Junction. This bridge was replaced around 1920 when double deck trams began running, thus the dip below the bridge for added height. The tramway is now the central reservation. The bridge is 'B' listed. Below the roadway is Glasgow Corporation's Loch Katrine Aqueduct along which Great Western Road runs.
The station did not open with the line, the Stobcross Railway of 1874. It opened when the Glasgow City and District Railway connected various North British Railway lines in the west of Glasgow to form a new east-west route through the city below Glasgow Queen Street High Level.
The main station building is on the southbound platform.
Both platforms had North British Railway style buildings, that on the southbound platform having greatly extended canopies. This was cut back during preparations for electrification and both buildings were demolished in 1969.
There were goods sidings on either side of the station, approached from the north from Knightswood South Junction. See that entry for more details.
The line between Glasgow Queen Street High Level and Anniesland is supported and promoted by the Glasgow North Community Rail Partnership .
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
Facilities
Gaelic name: Fearann Anna
| Nearby stations Jordanhill Kelvindale Kelvinside Hyndland Dawsholm Hyndland [1st] Crow Road Scotstoun Show Yard Maryhill Westerton Whiteinch Victoria Park Maryhill [Temporary] Scotstounhill Kirklee Summerston | Ironstone Pit Ironstone Pit Knightswood South Junction Barr and Stroud Works Ironstone Pit Temple Iron Works Skaterigg Engine Pit Dawsholm Junction Knightswood Mineral Depot Temple Gas Works Exchange Sidings [CR] Temple Works (Engineering) Skaterigg Colliery Pit No 14 Temple Gas Works Clay Pit Ironstone Pit |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 09/01/1931 | Stobcross Railway Great Western Road station renamed Anniesland. |
| /10/1980 | Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Maryhill signal box burnt down, line to Anniesland closed. New brick box built on other side of track, but never used. The Maryhill to Anniesland section of the Stobcross Railway falls out of use. |
| / /1983 | Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Stobcross Railway Maryhill Park signal box burns down, line from Maryhill Park Junction [1st] to Knightswood South Junction (Anniesland) out of use. Trains from Rothesay Dock to BSC Ravenscraig Steelworks (imported coal) and stock movements unable to run. Fort William sleeper diverted to run through Singer. |
| / /1988 | Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Stobcross Railway Maryhill Park Junction to Knightswood South Junction (Anniesland) intentionally omited from Yoker Resignalling Scheme. |
| /09/2005 | Stobcross Railway Re-opening of 1.6km of line between Maryhill Park Junction and Anniesland with a new Kelvindale station. |
News items
Books
 A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series) |  An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways |
