Pollokshields East
Location type
StationName and dates
Pollokshields East (1886-)Station code: PLE 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 building, not the original which was of typical Cathcart District Railway design.
The station's signal box did not open with the line, but in 1893. It was located at the south end of the island platform. It closed in 1921.
When the station opened it the lines of the Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) were on its west side. On its east side was undeveloped land which was absorbed by Coplawhill Tram Depot during its expansion.
The station is to the immediate south of Pollokshields East Junction. It has steps down from Albert Drive.
To the immediate east is the Tramway arts venue, formerly Coplawhill Tram Depot.
To the south the line dives under the former Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway.
To the west was Muirhouse North Junction and is Muirhouse Central Junction.
The station was the location of notorious murders when, on the 10th of December 1945, porter/clerk William Wright, station clerk Annie Withers and junior porter Robert Gough were shot by a gunman unknown to them. Wright raised the alarm with the signal man. Withers died before reaching the hospital and Gough died after two days at hospital. The safe was raided. Nearly a year passed before Charles Templeman Brown, a railway fireman, was arrested and tried. After serving a prison term he was to die in a road accident, curiously on the 10th of December 1960.
Local
Glasgow Police Museum - The Pollokshields Railway Murders of 1945
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StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Strathbungo Pollokshields West Queens Park Gushetfaulds Eglinton Street Shields Shields Road [CGU] Shields Road [GPJ] West Street Cumberland Street West Street [Subway] South Side [GB and NDR] South Side [CR] Crosshill Shields Road [Subway] | Muirhouse North Junction Muirhouse Power Box Glasgow Museum of Transport [1st] Muirhouse Central Junction Pollokshields East Junction Tradeston Gas Works Exchange Sidings Muirhouse Engineering Works Muirhouse South Junction [1st] Muirhouse South Junction Langside Junction Tradeston Gas Works Etna Foundry West Street Tunnel West Street Junction [CR] Eglinton Street Tunnels |
| 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. |
| 01/01/1917 | Cathcart District Railway Pollokshields East and Crosshill stations closed for wartime economies. |
| 01/03/1919 | Cathcart District Railway Pollokshields East re-opened. |
| 10/12/1945 | Cathcart District Railway Murder at Pollokshields East. |
| 21/04/1976 | Cathcart District Railway Pollokshields East station burnt down. |
News items
Books
 An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways | An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways |
