Eglinton St Station

[Schiehallion]

Thought I'd take a couple of photos on my home tonight of where Eglinton St Station once stood. Not the original one which became Cumberland St Station but the one located just north of Eglinton Toll. By all accounts it was a fair sized station with platforms serving both the lines to Polmadie/Rutherglen and also the lines to Pollokshields East & West.

Apparently a walkway, which I think was covered, spanned right across the tracks from the Eglinton St entrance to the Kilbirnie St entrance.

Location of Eglinton St entrance now bricked up.




Eglinton St entrance showing line of stairs down to platforms.




Location of Kilbirnie St entrance now bricked up.

[james73]

Apparently s walkway, which I think was covered, spanned right across the tracks from the Eglinton St entrance to the Kilbirnie St entrance.

Correct. There's a picture or two of it in "An Illustrated History of Glasgow's
Railways" showing the old station.



James H

[Schiehallion]

I didn't know a photo of it even existed. Just found a copy of that book on Abebooks.com.

[footbowler]

It was originally built on the site of the 2nd Wellcroft Bowling Club.

I have a great old photo of this very bowling club in the 1870's, which i will try and get to scan on.

[Pgcc93]

Note the Church spire above the signal box. Was this the one that was demolished several years ago?

IIRC there used to be another church close to this but was demolished decades ago??



All that remains of the station.

[Schiehallion]

I would say that is the more recently demolished church. Is that photo taken from the cab?

Thanks to James73 mentioning "An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways" in this thread I got a hold of the book. Full of great old pictures of Glasgow's stations (and surroundings) including a few of Eglinton St station.

[Pgcc93]

I would say that is the more recently demolished church.

I think your right, theres a pic of them on here somewhere im sure.

Is that photo taken from the cab?

No it was camera oot the windae on the Berwick train right near the front zoomed and cropped.

[crusty_bint]

The spire is of the the church that stood at the corner of Devon St and Eglinton St, the chimneys to the right of it belonged to Alexander Thomsons tenemntal masterpiece that was Queens Park Terrace. there's a photo in Gavin Stamps book on Thomson showing the terrace and part of the old train station too

[smartie]

Am I not correct in saying that they are going to reopen a station there as part of the M77 completion project ?

[james73]

Am I not correct in saying that they are going to reopen a station there as part of the M77 completion project ?

I don't think so, no. There's talk of a Gorbals station as part of Crossrail, but
that's on the old St Enoch lines.



James H