Strathbungo
Location type
StationName and dates
Strathbungo (1877-1962)Opened on the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station on the Glasgow to Barrhead line with waiting rooms on the platforms and an office on the road overbridge at the north east end. The city bound platform was larger than the southbound platform and had ornamental gardens.
The station was immediately south west of Strathbungo Junction and immediately south of Pollokshields West station (opened 1894) on the Cathcart District Railway.
The station did not open with the line when the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway, associated with the Caledonian Railway, opened in 1848 but was a later addition in 1877 which was not long after the line became joint Glasgow and South Western Railway and Caledonian Railway with the line's extension to Kilmarnock. Strathbungo Junction, to the north east of the station, was where the Caledonian Railway approach to Glasgow Central and the Glasgow and South Western Railway approach to Glasgow St Enoch divided. (The latter was joint owned as far as South Side [GB and NDR].)
There was no goods yard. The bridge upon which the ticket office stands was designed to cross four tracks, in anticipation of increased traffic, but the line was never quadrupled. (The ticket office at nearby Crossmyloof was also above the line to allow quadrupling.) Quadrupling was not an impossibility, the Paisley route to Glasgow St Enoch was quadrupled as was the Rutherglen approach to Glasgow Central.
With the development of further housing in the area, between this station and Pollokshields West, a second footbridge was installed south west of the station, between Darnley Place/Darnley Road and Moray Place/Marywood Square.
The station closed in 1962. Pollokshields West had a more frequent service to Glasgow.
The platform mounds, footbridge (with access to the former platforms removed) and former ticket office remained after closure. The station footbridge was C listed.
The ticket office and original footbridge were removed for electrification of the Barrhead and East Kilbride routes and road bridge raised. The footbridge will be replaced. The second footbridge to the south west has been removed.
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StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
11/01/2023
| Nearby stations Pollokshields West Pollokshields East Queens Park Crossmyloof Maxwell Park Shields Shields Road [CGU] Shields Road [GPJ] Crosshill Gushetfaulds Eglinton Street Mount Florida Shawlands Shields Road [Subway] West Street | Muirhouse South Junction Muirhouse South Junction [1st] Muirhouse Central Junction Muirhouse Power Box Muirhouse North Junction Glasgow Museum of Transport [1st] Pollokshields East Junction Tradeston Gas Works Exchange Sidings Muirhouse Engineering Works Langside Junction Tradeston Gas Works Etna Foundry Terminus Junction Maxwell Park Goods Shields Tunnel [Clydesdale] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1877 | Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway Strathbungo station opened directly south west of Strathbungo Junction. |
| 19/07/1887 | Cathcart District Railway Extension of line to Strathbungo, Act receives Royal assent. |
| / /1962 | Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway Strathbungo station closed. |
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Books
 An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways |
