Mount Florida
Location type
StationName and dates
Mount Florida (1886-)Station code: MFL 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. The typical Cathcart District Railway station building has been replaced with a modern structure. The platform is largely located in a cutting.
A further platform (but no further lines) was added for passengers travelling to Hampden Park Stadium. This platform was south of the station on the west side.
There was a small goods yard immediately to the south, on the east side of the line approached from the north (Mount Florida Mineral Depot). The signal box (opened with the station) was located at the south end of the station.
Further south, Cathcart North Junction is where the routes to Cathcart and Newton separate.
To the north is Crosshill station.
Mount Florida was briefly the southern terminus of the line before it fully opened to Cathcart [1st].
The signal box closed in 1938, replaced with a ground frame.
When built Clincart Hill, to the west, and much of the land on the east side were undeveloped.
Tags
Station terminusExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
| Nearby stations Crosshill Cathcart [1st] Queens Park Cathcart Langside Kings Park Strathbungo Pollokshields West Pollokshields East Crossmyloof Pollokshaws East Gushetfaulds Shawlands Muirend Maxwell Park | Mount Florida Mineral Depot Battlefield [Tram] Cathcart North Junction Cathcart Power Box SPX Flow Aikenhead Colliery Nos 1 and 2 Cathcart East Junction White Cart Water Viaduct Coal Pit Colliery Works Cathcart West Junction Govan Coal work Mallsmire Firebrick Works Queens Park Locomotive Works Tourist/other Hampden Park Stadium |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/03/1886 | Cathcart District Railway Cathcart Junction to Mount Florida opened for passengers. Stations at Pollokshields East, Queens Park, Crosshill, Mount Florida. |
| 25/05/1886 | Cathcart District Railway Mount Florida to Cathcart [1st] opened to passengers. Cathcart [1st] opened. |
| /08/1886 | Cathcart District Railway Mount Florida opened to goods. |
| 01/08/1904 | Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway Mount Florida and Cathcart to Newton and Kirkhill Junction to Westburn Junction opened for passengers. Burnside and Kirkhill stations opened. |
News items
Books
 An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways | An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways |
