Location type

Station

Name and dates

Crosshill (1886-)

Station code: COI National Rail ScotRail
Where: Glasgow City, Scotland
Opened on the Cathcart District Railway.
Open on the Cathcart Circle.
Open on the Neilston Line.
Open on the Newton Line.

Description

This is an island platform station, with a narrow platform and original station building.

The building is a narrower form of that which was found elsewhere on the Cathcart District Railway. It featured wooden seating built into the framework supporting the roof, these seats are now gone.

There was a signal box on the platform north of the station building. This opened with the line and closed with the opening of Cathcart Power Box in 1961, also controlled by Muirhouse Junction box.

Access is by steps from Albert Road.

To the north west is Queens Park station and to the south is Mount Florida station.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
08/07/2019

Nearby stations Queens Park Mount Florida Gushetfaulds Pollokshields East Strathbungo Pollokshields West South Side [CR] Eglinton Street South Side [GB and NDR] Kings Park Cathcart [1st] Cumberland Street Gorbals Crossmyloof Main Street Gorbals	Colliery Works Govan Coal work Coal Pit Queens Park Locomotive Works Mallsmire Firebrick Works Coal Pit Gushetfaulds Junction Central Station Junction Battlefield [Tram] Polmadie Signal Box Larkfield Junction Langside Junction Glasgow Museum of Transport [1st] Polmadie Industrial Gases Works Tourist/other Hampden Park Stadium
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.