Partick Central railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Partick Central
other_name=


caption = The former station building for Partick Central, most recently used as an auction house but demolished January 2007.
line = Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway
manager = Caledonian Railway
locale = Partick
borough = Glasgow
years = 1 October 1896
events = Opened
years1 = 15 June 1959
events1 = Renamed as Kelvin Hall
years2 = 5 October 1964
events2 = Station closed to passengers (line closed to Stobcross)
years3 = 23 October 1978
events3 = Station completely closed (freight service from Yoker)
years4 = 28 January 2007
events4 = Station building demolished
platforms = 2|

Partick Central railway station was a railway station serving the Partick area of the city of Glasgow. Built in the 1890s by the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway Company, it sat on a line that ran along the north bank of the River Clyde from Stobcross to Dumbarton.

History

The station was renamed "Kelvin Hall" in 1959, as it was in the vicinity of the building of that name, and was close, but not attached to, the Partick Cross station on the Glasgow Subway.

Passenger and goods services to the station ceased in 1964 when it closed as part of the Beeching cuts to rail services across the UK. The station building was later used as a workshop and an auction house before lying empty for a number of years. The remains of the platforms and trackbed, which were underneath the station building, have been removed but the railway's route is fairly discernible. The station's goods yard served as a site for travelling people and as a scrap merchants.

Redevelopment of site

The site had been empty and awaiting redevelopment when in 2004 it emerged that the supermarket chain Tesco wished to develop a 24-hour operation there, in the face of local opposition [http://www.stoptesco.info STOP] . Tesco had the station building demolished on 28 January 2007, before planning permission had been given for the development from Glasgow City Council. [ [http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/display.var.1156641.0.0.php Evening Times - Flattened ... by Tesco] ] [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuBGju0Lvug Video of Demolition] ]

References

Notes

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* [http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/rail/partickcentral.htm The Disused Partick Central Station]

Route

rail line
next = Partick West
"Line and station closed"
previous = Stobcross
now named
Exhibition Centre
"Station open; Line partially open"
route = Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway

operated by Caledonian Railway
col = Caledonian colour
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