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Maryhill Central

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Maryhill [CR] (1896-1952)
Maryhill Central (1952-1964)

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

Opened on the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway.
Opened on the Glasgow Central Railway.

Description

This was a four platform station. There were two through platforms and, on either side, two bay platforms for terminating services via Glasgow Central. These bays had carriage sidings alongside. Platforms were canopied. The majority of passenger trains terminated here, however the through lines were for passenger trains to Possil and goods and mineral trains running from Balornock Junction.

There was a large goods yard to the south.

The line rose going east from the station and banking was sometimes required as far as Springburn Goods.

The station site was cleared and is now a shopping centre and car park. Space for a single track line under this was left, a portal at the west end giving access.

To the west was Maryhill Junction.

Aliases

Maryhill Barracks

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67

Nearby stations Kirklee Dawsholm Botanic Gardens Lochburn Gilshochill Summerston Hillhead [Subway] Maryhill [Temporary] Maryhill Kelvinside Kelvinbridge [Subway] Kelvin Bridge Hyndland [1st] Kelvindale Possil North	Ruchill Street Bridge [FCC] Ruchill Iron Works Glasgow Lead and Colour Works Maryhill Central Junction Ruchill Goods Maryhill Iron Works Glasgow Rubber Works Kirklee Goods Signal Box Tamshill Tunnel Kirklee Goods Caledonian Foundry Stockingfield Junction [Canal] Kirklee Junction Stockingfield Stop lock Tourist/other Maryhill East Signal Box
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/12/1894	Glasgow Central Railway Maryhill Central opened to goods.
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.
02/11/1959	Glasgow Central Railway Maryhill Central to Stobcross (via Kelvin Bridge) closed to passengers. (No stations remained to be closed.)
05/10/1964	Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Possil North to Partick West and Partick West to Dunglass Junction closed to passengers. Possil North, Maryhill Central closed and Partick West, Whiteinch Riverside, Scotstoun East, Scotstoun West, Clydebank Riverside, Kilbowie Road, Dalmuir Riverside, Old Kilpatrick closed.
/ /1980	Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Maryhill Shopping Centre built over the remains of Maryhill Central station. A single-track sized tunnel is left under the station with a single platform.