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This was a single platform station.

The passenger platform was to the north side of the line. There was a loop, but the platform to the south was a loading bank with a second face served by a siding from the west. There was a second siding to the south.

A signal box opened in 1897 at the west end of the platform.

The station closed to passengers in 1961 but remained open as a through route for goods and minerals until 1956 when the line east to Kelvin Valley East Junction closed. The box closed in 1957.

It was short lived as a goods terminus, the line west to Balmore closing in 1959 - except that an S.L.S. special visited Torrance in April 1960 and the loop remained along with the goods sidings which were still in use.

Perhaps the line actually closed in 1961 when the route westwards from Balmore to Maryhill East Junction closed.

The site survived intact until the late 1980s when it was redeveloped for housing.

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