Springburn
Location type
StationName and dates
Springburn (1887-)Station code: SPR National Rail ScotRail
Where: Glasgow City, Scotland
Opened on the City of Glasgow Union Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Cumbernauld via Duke Street.
Description
This is a four platform station. Two platforms are through lines and two are bays served from the south east.
Formerly the Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) bypassed the station on its south west side, those lines being lifted in the 1990s.
The relatively new Sighthill West Junction, for the Cowlairs Chord (British Railways), is to the north west and Sighthill East Junction (formerly Sighthill Junction) is to the south east.
An original street level building survives, designed by James Carsewell. It is a two storey building, presenting two floors to the platforms and a single storey at street level.
There was a goods yard on the north east side, served from the south east.
Two locomotive works were nearby - Hyde Park Works [2nd] to the south west and Atlas Works [2nd] to the north east. Both are now closed.
Springburn signal box was at the north/west end of the station, located on the east side of the railway and north of Springburn Road (on the east side of today's A803). It operated trailing crossovers on the CGU and the Sighthill Goods lines. There was an exit from the south end of Turkey Yard which lay on the west side of the Sighthill Goods line. The location is now Sighthill West Junction. The box closed in 1956, replaced by Cowlairs Panel Box.
Tags
Station terminusExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
08/04/2020
Facilities
Gaelic name: Allt an Fhuarain
Chronology Dates
| 16/08/1875 | City of Glasgow Union Railway Bellgrove to Springburn opened for goods, Haghill Junction to Parkhead Junction opened. |
| 01/01/1887 | City of Glasgow Union Railway 'Bus train' service to Shields Road [CGU] extended to Springburn. |
| 05/11/1960 | Glasgow North Bank Electrification Service begins with electric services to termini at; Helensburgh Central, Balloch Pier, Singer Workers Platforms station, Milngavie, Bridgeton Central, Springburn, Airdrie. The new trains (Class 303s) built at Pressed Steel Co Ltd, Linwood, became known as the Blue Trains, these were used in all the Glasgow electrification schemes. |
| 20/03/1964 | Singer Works Springburn to Singer Workers Platforms passenger trains cease. |
| 07/11/1966 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) Buchanan Street station closed; Buchanan Street to Sighthill East Junction closed. Where possible trains are diverted to Glasgow Queen Street High Level. A local shuttle to Cumbernauld commences from Springburn. |
| 06/03/1989 | Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway)
City of Glasgow Union Railway Crash at Bellgrove Junction when a train leaves Bellgrove station passing a red light (SPAD) and runs onto the single lead of the Springburn line striking a train leaving the branch. 2 were killed and 40 injured. |
| 15/05/1989 | Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway Stepps station opened. Served by the Springburn to Cumbernauld services, and Greenfaulds opened on the same day. |
| 15/05/1989 | Caledonian Railway Greenfaulds station opened. Served by the Springburn to Cumbernauld services, and Stepps opened on the same day. |
| / /1991 | Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) Slow, goods, lines to south/west of Springburn station - Cowlairs West Junction to Sighthill Junction - lifted. |
| 19/05/2014 | Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway
Caledonian Railway Electric passenger services begin operating between Glasgow and Cumbernauld following commissioning of 50 km of 25 kV 50 Hz electrification between Springburn and Cumbernauld. |
