Stobhill Hospital
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:25 pm
Stobhill Hospital
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There will also be a Minor Injuries Unit staffed by Emergency Nurse Practitioners dealing with the ‘walking wounded’. (Minor injuries explanation needed here.)
Josef wrote:I'm really surprised that they haven't just flogged the site off to developers and moved all the services to Glasgow Royal. Or vice-versa.
JayKay wrote:I also have heard of there being a direct train route for wounded WW1 soldiers in Glasgow.
The difference is that I heard it was Stobhill Hospital, which does have a (now disused) rail line beside it. This line would have connected to the Glasgow/Edinburgh line at Springburn. Some of this disused line is still visible off Glasgow Road in Springburn.
I had also heard that this direct train line to the hospital existed so that civillian morale would not have been adversely affected by seeing what was happening to the soldiers at the front.
In September 1914, at the beginning of the first world war, the hospital was requisitioned by the Royal Army Medical Corps and the first batch of wounded servicemen arrived by specially converted 'ambulance train' at a temporary railway platform built within the grounds. It ran round the back of Stobhill Hospital, just at Littlehill Golf Club.
dazed_and_confused wrote:I always thought there was a rail link into Stobhill itself, just before you get to Casualty?
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=55.89421 ... =0&src=msl
There's a 1 storey deep hole by the side of the clock tower, under the small bridge. Sadly, no secret tunnel though. Was this a station in a steep cutting, a siding, or just a hole in the ground?
Nothing seems to show up on any old maps I've seen, like the one above.
Guacho wrote:Tiny part of the map, hopefully shows where the trains with the wounded went
Interestingly, this is the 1913 version...........