Partick
Location type
StationName and dates
Partick (1979-)Station code: PTK National Rail ScotRail
Where: Glasgow City, Scotland
Opened on the Stobcross Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Helensburgh.
Description
This is a modern two platform station which replaced Partickhill just to the north west.
The station serves Partick and, along with Partick [Subway], is closest to the Riverside Museum (Riverside Museum ) although a fair walk and crossing over the River Kelvin is required.
Facilities
Gaelic name: Partaig
| Nearby stations Merkland Street [Subway] Partick [Subway] Partickhill Partick West Yorkhill Kelvin Hall Kelvinhall [Subway] Govan [Subway] Crow Road Govan Hyndland [1st] Hyndland Hillhead [Subway] Whiteinch Riverside Botanic Gardens | Merklands Tram Depot Merkland Street Tunnel Partickhill Goods [NBR] Tod and McGregor^s Graving Dock Partick East Junction Meadowside Shipbuilding Yard Kelvin Viaduct Slit Grain Mills Pointhouse Shipbuilding Yard Inglis Boilerworks Yorkhill Yard Tourist/other Meadowside Landing Stage Govan Wharf Pointhouse Quay Govan Wharf Landing Stage |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/12/1882 | Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway Opened from Yoker Junction, Hyndland, to Clydebank [1st] (later Clydebank East). This line was used in conjunction with a ferry over the Clyde and the Stobcross Railway station at Partick for shipyard workers who lived in Govan to travel to the Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard [2nd] which had re-located from Govan. A line ran west from Clydebank [1st] into the shipyard over the Forth and Cart Canal. With the opening of the railway the Forth and Cart lost most of its business. |
| 17/12/1979 | Glasgow City and District Railway Partickhill closed and replaced by Partick (incorporates Merkland Street [Subway] station). |
| 11/12/1994 | Glasgow Central Railway The River Kelvin bursts its banks and floods the disused tunnels from Kelvin Bridge to Stobcross, where it floods the open Argyle Line railway. (Alternative date 9th.) The route through Glasgow Central Low Level is closed between Partick and Rutherglen and trains are diverted onto the Sunnyside Junction to Whifflet section of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway for access to Motherwell. This remains in operation for around nine months. Units 314208 and 314212 are trapped in the floodwater at Glasgow Central where the water reached half way up the sides of the carriages. |
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 |
