Bridgeton

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Bridgeton Cross [CR] (1895-1964)
Bridgeton (1979-)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Station code: BDG National Rail ScotRail
Where: Glasgow City, Scotland
Opened on the Glasgow Central Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Larkhall.
Open on the Hamilton Circle.
Open on the Argyle Line.

Description

This is a two platform station. The original configuration of this station was somewhat unusual - two platforms on either side of the line to Rutherglen and an island platform on the line to Carmyle. Platforms were heavily canopied.

On the south side of the island platform were carriage sidings and a goods yard, approached from the west. The island platform itself was partly belong London Road but with the south elevation open.

The station had two signal boxes, one at the west end controlling the junction between the two lines and another at the east end on the line to Carmyle. The latter closed in 1934 taken over by the junction box. In 1956 the line was re-signalled with a power box opening here and at Stobcross.

The station closed in 1964.

The two platforms on the Rutherglen route re-opened in 1979. The island platform remains in ruinous condition as the Carmyle route did not re-open. The site of the sidings is now occupied by housing.

To the north, over London Road, was the London Road Iron Works which did not have direct railway access.

The station site was once the Barrowfield Cotton Mill.

Tags

Station
01/01/2023




Chronology Dates

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.

News items

09/05/2022Glasgow's Argyle line reopens on time for passengers [Network Rail]
12/04/2022Inside the £32m project to redevelop Glasgow's Argyle train line [STV]
12/03/2022Argyle line to shut for £32million works to improve punctuality [The Herald]
11/03/2022£32m Argyle Line improvement work to start on Sunday [ScotRail]
05/03/2022Argyle Line closure: ScotRail customers set for 'bumpy 8 weeks' [The Herald]
04/03/2022Extra bus service to support 8 week ScotRail Argyle line closure [Glasgow Times]
28/02/2022Rutherglen commuters face two months of rail disruption as line set to close [Daily Record]
10/02/2022Rutherglen residents to be without Sunday train service for nearly two months [Daily Record]
11/01/2022Glasgow low level rail route to close for major improvement works [Glasgow Times]
03/12/2021Key rail link for Hydro, Celtic Park and Emirates Arena in Glasgow to close for two months [Glasgow World]