RAILSCOT | Possilpark (Private)

Possilpark (Private)

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Possilpark (1885-1916)
Possilpark (Private) (1916-1950)

Opened on the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway.

Description

This station was west of Balmore Road. Nothing remains to be seen of it today. It was a basic station with platforms and shelter. After the Great War it was an unadvertised station.

It was south of the competing former Possil station.

A modern station, Possilpark and Parkhouse, has opened to the east of the original Possilpark station.

There was a goods yard to the south, accessed by reversal from the Ruchill Goods Branch (North British Railway). Access to the branch and goods was from Possilpark Junction to the immediate west of the station controlled by a signal box at the west end of the station on the eastbound platform.

The station closed in 1950 and the signal box was removed in 1977. The double track line remains open.

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
06/12/2021

Nearby stations Possilpark and Parkhouse Possil North Ashfield Eastfield Platform Lochburn Cowlairs Gilshochill Maryhill Central St Georges Cross [Subway] Springburn Kelvinbridge [Subway] Kelvin Bridge Summerston Kirklee Botanic Gardens	Possilpark Goods Possilpark Junction North Western Engineering Works Saracen Foundry Ironstone Pit Possil Old Quarries Clydesdale Iron Works [Possil Park] Possil Junction Western Saw Mills Lambhill Bridge Stables Lambhill Iron Works Tourist/other Ruchill Hospital Possil House Ruchill House Lochburn Quay
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1887	Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Possilpark opened
01/01/1917	Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Possilpark closed to regular services, retained for workman trains. Lochburn closed.
/07/1969	Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Maryhill Park and Possilpark closed to goods.
02/12/1993	Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Glasgow Queen Street High Level to Maryhill re-opened for local passenger service (Stations at; Maryhill, Lambhill, Summerston, Possilpark, Ashfield), trains continue to Knightswood West Junction to swap tracks.