It was pretty quickly vandalised. save hide report. Nowadays people may not even realise that in 1964 under the beeching cuts much of the Glasgow Low Level railway network was abandoned and only later reopened in 1979, when the lines were modernised and electrified. With the COP26 climate conference taking place in 2021, it's never a bad time to think what former stations Glasgow could reopen to help decrease the levels of pollution in the city. Apr 16, 2017 - Abandoned railway tunnel I visited a few days ago in Glasgow Scotland (Botanic Gardens Railway Station). It was in fact the 72nd Glasgow Scout Group. A hump in the road at Kelvinhaugh Street (below) shows you where the line then went underground again , shortly to join the current train line, roughly where it splits now towards Anderston or towards Charing Cross Stations. The line continued to run until 1964. YouTube Link Below! My aim is to try and sort out in my head how this all used to join together. 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In this 1969 picture workers clear the debris from the demolished station, into the river by the looks of things. Only bits of walls remain now on Dumbarton Road, Maule Drive and Exeter Drive. Wall at the end of the old Kirklee platform in the Botanic Gardens, In the Botanic Gardens looking down the the tunnel entrance under the park, Tunnel entrance at old Kirklee Station, the tunnel heading south under the Botanic Gardens, Not much light in the tunnel as it bends up ahead, End of the tunnel, when viewed from the park above, Looking down into the ventilation shafts of Botanic Gardens station from the park above, From the platform, the remains of the stairs leading down into the station, Art work below ground at Botanic Gardens station, Girders support the tunnel roof here as it leaves the station, underneath the junction at the top of Byres Road, Under Great Western Road a name plaque of, Caledonian Mansions on Great Western Road, The tunnel emerges beneath the back courts of Caledonian Mansions, The tunnel entrance viewed from above from Caledonian Crescent, Up above only a few fragments of ornate sandstone cornice survive from the station building, The platform emerges from under the former tunnel onto a short bridge over the River Kelvin, The train line came from the station, along the east bank of the, The north end of the old Kelvinbridge station platform, In the darkness of the station platform the remnants of the staircases climb up to the former platform, Kelvinbridge Station in all its former glory. Thanks so much for putting all this together! The North Yorkshire Moors Railway Shed is a popular tourist attraction in the area. This was very fascinating reading! Looking down from among the shrubbery in the Botanics you can see the former train line enter a tunnel and the line then ran all the way under the Botanic Gardens. It was definitely in Botanics but not near the great Western Roac Station. Abandoned Rails of the Wabash Railroad WAB. It consisted of 2 platforms and was in use for many years, but shut permanently in 1939 and has remained silent since then. In living memory, hundreds of railway stations have closed across the country and have since been abandoned, demolished or converted to other uses. These took the line from Maryhill Central station (now vanished below the Tesco superstore on Maryhill Road) sweeping right towards Dawsholm, or left, over the more substantial looking stone bridge) to Kirklee station. Log in sign up. It was a successful line carrying goods traffic and workers to the industry along here, but with the decline of these industries the traffic fell. Also train lines, names and stations were opened/ closed/ changed over time so really there is no point in time that all the stations mentioned here were operating together as described by me. You could go up the line and staying carefully to the side look at them sitting - often still partly powered up with their compressors churning away keeping the air brake bottles topped off. I would love to see a modern light railway or tram system built in Glasgow, to take some of the buses and cars off the roads that are grinding to a halt, but I won't hold my breathe. Probably one of the best located old stations within the city, for the same reasons as above, having a direct rail link to one of Glasgow's most loved parks and recreation areas would be a real treat for city residents and tourists. Under pressure from the city’s authorities and businesses these plans were abandoned in favour of the Glasgow Central Railway Company, which would instead run under the city and form Glasgow Central Low-Level Station, opened in 1896. Re-opening the station would go a long way to provide better transport facilities for the 60,000 fans who head to watch Celtic every second week and help ease congestion seen in the area on match days, while also serving the Emirates Arena nearby. The station, which opened in 1896 and remained in use until 1939 would no doubt also prove popular as an alternative means to travel to the heart of the west end rather than by the Subway or by bus. The Caledonian Railway line that left Central station through Partick West would then head along the north bank of the Clyde towards Balloch and Dumbarton. Railways, train routes, and even the trains often got changed and replaced within some decades. The Lanarkshire and Dumbarton line Maryhill station opened as Maryhill Barracks station, in 1894. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disused railway stations in Glasgow. Very well done, Answers a lot of questions! I discovered an old railway platform as a 16 year old in 1969 in botanic gardens but it was in fact I was told Kirklee station. From another site:A spur to Partick Goods yard started here. Click to expand. When the Argyle line was re-opened in 1979 a new Partick train station was built above the Merkland Street subway entrance and Partickhill station closed. It is a non-trunk road and provides a bypass of Glasgow's West End. The line lies below the car park and as it goes into a tunnel beneath the Forth and Clyde Canal behind the bingo and into Ruchill, you can only see the top of the tunnel entrance behind the shrubbery, the tunnel filled in with the raised road level. I grew up in Maryhill in the 1970s and still live nearby. The way in was previously visible at this point but a large block of student flats here on Old Dumbarton Road now seems to cover the entrance. Disused Train Lines and Ghost Railway Stations of ... Disused Train Lines and Ghost Railway Stations of Glasgow, Walking Through Partick, Past and Present, Maryhill is Wonderful (Walking Through Maryhill With Some Old Photos as a Guide), The Glasgow Subway is not a sandwich shop, Tram to Maryhill, in Glasgow Riverside Museum, Detail from a 1951 map of the Glasgow rail lines. The platforms are accessible via the tunnel portal at the Kirklee end of the Gardens. your own Pins on Pinterest 100% Upvoted. The red sandstone station building was demolished in 1971 and modern flats stand where it once was on the northern side of Ford Road. We all know what happened to Grahamston, but what about the other areas that were lost to the arrival of train stations, lines and goods depots? Located directly across from Lebowski's on Argyle Street on the Queen Street train line, the original station closed on January 1, 1917. 196 12. As you walk along the tunnel the light you see up ahead is from the Botanic Gardens station. 9. Jaymielee Stewart allowed her son to pick up a toy from the kids' section, but had no idea it would include such messages inside. Some of that plain view is out of my own back window - I confess my house is one of the ones built over a line that can never re-open! Glasgow Botanic Gardens Railway Station Photo by Glasgowfoodie via Flickr | Creative Commons The 19th century Botanic Gardens in Glasgow are a popular destination, but few tourists know that they’re just a stone’s throw from one of the city’s most iconic abandonments: a subterranean Victorian railway station that has been disused for decades. Devastated dog owners launch appeal to find beautiful missing husky collie Bella, Mum and baby flee for lives after pram torched in flat close. The steam train links the inland town of Pickering to the very small village of Grossmont, near the Whitby coast. The station building was demolished in the late 1960s. The tunnel under Kirklee Road has been filled in and the line can be followed down below a set of clothes line poles towards the flats that now cover the site of Kirklee station. City planners had previously recommended that the development should go-ahead. Glasgowpunter, your descriptive journeys of the once grand west of Glasgow suburban lines bring back fond memories. Nicola Sturgeon coronavirus updates RECAP: 92 more coronavirus deaths and 1330 new cases in Scotland. Glasgow, Scotland. Close • Posted by 1 hour ago. Sinead McAree will celebrate her 50th birthday in style, by dancing around the clock in aid of Alzheimer's Research UK. I was a member, way back...... As a kid me and my friends used to walk through the pitch dark tunnels under Ruchill golf course all the way through to Maryhill (in the 1980s. The sidings still functioned for another 14 years serving the scrap merchant and oil depot on the site and the site was used by travelling people and a scrap merchant until recently. Logic (and the curve in the footprint of the buildings) would suggest if must have been served off a spur from the present line running between the present Hyndland and Partick Stations. Abandoned Central Low Level in 1967. iangr. The new houses built on the old station site are now Clarence Gardens. There was also an old Coal Depot on the east side of Clarence Drive. The Botanic Gardens station isn’t the only abandoned railway station still visible in Glasgow. The Botanic Gardens station isn’t the only abandoned railway station still visible in Glasgow. Glenfarg Railway Tunnels, Perth. It was a wonderful adventure, exploring the disused tunnels which in these days had not been fenced up and you could walk freely with homemade torches of burning tar on a stick. Press J to jump to the feed. However, since 1999 the land along many sections of the line has now been sold for housing and there will not be trains running again along here anytime soon. At a guess it was probably an illegal rave. After leaving Partick Central station, trains heading east towards town would cross over the River Kelvin on a low bridge, and then into the opening of the Yorkhill Tunnel. 0 comments. Pedestrians and cyclists will be familiar with the short tunnels of Colinton, Trinity and Rodney Street but lying just to the south of Rodney Street Tunnel is something a little more intriguing, the Scotland Street Railway Tunnel. The station closed in 1964. An abandoned tramway kiosk designed in the same style as the building and built in 1903 is still present at the site. Okay, almost done now. In 1959 it was renamed Kelvin Hall station and passenger services stopped in 1964. Julie O'Rourke and 18-month-old Jesse were rescued from the top floor flat after the terrifying early morning blaze. If you were to wander into it today, you would travel under the length of Kelvingrove Park and Kelvingrove Street and emerge south of St Vincent Crescent briefly. The term "ghost station" is a calque of the German word Geisterbahnhof (plural Geisterbahnhöfe).The German term was coined to describe certain stations on Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin's division during the Cold War because they were an integral part of a transit line mostly located on the other side of the Berlin Wall. North beyond Hyndland station the former line is no longer apparent below a complex of modern flats, until it reaches the former Kelvinside station, on Great Western Road beside Gartnavel General Hospital. One of the biggest areas in Glasgow at approximately 7 miles long, Maryhill is well served by the Glasgow bus network yet poorly linked to rail transport, with one station located at the far end of Maryhill and one a 10/15 minute walk from Maryhill Road at Gilsochhill. The station entrance was above ground on Great Western Road, with the platforms underground. After closing in 1908, it had reopened after 26 years. I also remember the two railway bridges down over Dumbarton Road and now trying to find some pictures of them. Train services have been suspended following the incident. Nicola Sturgeon adviser Devi Sridhar claims UK Government quarantine hotels plan won't work. Part of the station building was destroyed by a fire in 1970, therefore a section of the railway had to be … In 1954, the station was renamed Possil North until its fate in 1964. Article first published on February 18, 2019. To me they were always railway lines and railway stations. Below the station the line entered the Balgray tunnel to head north towards Kirklee station and Maryhill. Botanic Gardens – An Abandoned Railway Station in Glasgow The Botanic Gardens Railway Station was a train station on the Glasgow railway network located near Kelvinside in Glasgow’s West End. Glasgow has a wealth of disused and abandoned railway infrastructure we think could become the city’s own version of the High Line. Much of the line here was obliterated by the building of the Clydeside Expressway. Nowhere on these jaunts have I gone near current train lines, and the couple of tunnels mentioned below which do lead into existing lines should be avoided at all cost. Every second weekend I return to see Partick Thistle play at Firhill. The Clydeside Expressway snakes along the edge of the north bank of the River Clyde. Lewis Mill) Louisville (abandoned long before the railroad was built) North Glasgow Opened in 1896 Whiteinch (later Whiteinch Riverside) was the first station you came to, which stood just where you join the cyclepath from South Street. NB - Going anywhere near live train lines is incredibly dumb and runs the risk of death from trains breaking all your bones, electrocution or at the very least, a £1000 fine for trespass. Other train sidings at street level served the shipyards, cattle byres and granary buildings on South Street. Devastated Glasgow dog owners launch appeal to find beautiful missing husky collie Bella. share. If you are walking along the Kelvin walkway behind the Wynford, you will see two bridges high above the river. It passes underneath the block nearest to Kirklee Road and the iron balustrade of the rail bridge can be seen here on Kirklee Road. The station platform ran across a bridge into the Botanic Gardens where the platform can still be found. A ghost station from the grand Victorian age of rail hides within the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. The line north has been developed into a park above Dumbarton Road and modern flats higher up the hill. It goes through what is now a scrap yard (the site of the former station goods yard) and under the former. All that is left of Kirklee Station is the platform (which is in the northern end of the Botanic Gardens), the buildings were demolished, as mentioned above. Around 1890, the Glenfarg line was a fastest route to connect Edinburg and Perth. In 1897 the station was rebuilt as Whiteinch Victoria Park, to take passengers north, in a line paralell to Westland Drive to Jordanhill station. The tunnel underneath Kelvingrove Park is now soundly locked up but this tunnel and the one underneath Yorkhill were common venues for illegal raves in the 1990s. 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I have tried to have a look at what remains of the old rail infrastructure of Glasgow. 196 12. This station was open from 1895 until 1964, with proposals to re-open the station put in place as part of Crossrail Glasgow plans published back in 2005. We send a range of newsletters each day on the latest news, up to the minute stories and information on coronavirus, as well as the latest foodie news. explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. And why now? Person dies after being hit by train between Croy and Polmont. Post Dec 01, 2012 #1 2012-12-01T20:40. As the hill here climbs the train line entered a straight tunnel for about 100 yards, just north of Crathie Drive. There are fears the plans will not go far enough, with quarantine set to be enforced on arrivals from just a limited number of countries. Glasgow's train network is pretty good, one illustrated by the fact that Robrosyton station became the 60th station in the city when it opened back in December. If it is built, it will never be on the scale of what was here 100 years ago. Having noticed disjointed hints of former rail lines all over the place, I hoped to spend a couple of days trying to see how much of this old infrastructure is still there, before it is all obliterated under huge blocks of student flats. Under the road here Crow Road Station can be found. Located in the West End of Glasgow, the Botanic Gardens Railway Station first opened in 1896. We used to rope climb down the walls of the tunnel behind the Gala bingo, makes me shudder thinking about the risks we took as kids! I lived next to Partick Central (aka Kelvin Hall) Station 1957-1970. The remaining  industrial architecture gives wee hints at the skilled craftsmen who lived in Glasgow and built these metal railings, stone bridges and dug the tunnels. Today I passed another part of the rail, that one going along Crow Road, along Garnavel. Speaking to the families of those that have lost loved ones, the First Minister said their "loss weighs heavily on me, and it always will". My dad was a signalman at Partick Central Signal Box. The next station was Scotstoun East at the bottom of Scotstoun Street, where an impressive station building can still be seen below the bridge that carried the platform. Excellent piece of work, discovered while looking for info on Dawsholm shed. The tunnel goes underneath Cross Park and Crow Road and emerges briefly before going under Clarence Drive near Broomhill Cross. The station at Dawsholm only served as a passenger station until 1908, but a six-road engine shed was built here which continued in use until 1964. All bar three of the many disused railway tunnels that lie within the city and the towns and villages that surround it have been converted into footpaths. Great work all the same. Here the line split to head either west towards Dumbarton, or north up through what is now Thornwood Park. Botanic Gardens Railway Station. When Maryhill shopping centre was built in the early 1980s a void was maintained in the basement to allow the line to be re-opened in the future. Opened way back in 1887, this property was a popular train station that ran from Rutherglen to Possil, via Glasgow Central Railway. Nicola Sturgeon admits 'we should have done more' to restrict travel during pandemic. The line then splits to go right towards Kirklee station, or left, back over the River Kelvin towards Maryhill (later Maryhill Central) station. Ibrox railway station originally formed part of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, and was in operation (as 'Ibrox' station) between 1871 and 1967. Here are some abandoned train stations that could be reopened to help offer more solutions to the city's traffic problems and allow residents move around easier: Back in June of 2018, interest reawakened in reopening the station after Yorkhill and Kelvingrove Community Council mooted the idea alongside a suggestion that funding could potentially be secured to make it a reality. So anyone know if this was in fact Kirklee platform. Present day Maryhill station out near the Ram's Head pub, is on the site of the first station in Maryhill, opened in 1858. All of the towns and stops along the rail line are now ghost towns (south from Salisbury to Glasgow): Shannondale; Oil City (appears only on USGS Quadrangles and in the GNIS database) Forest Green; Lewis Mills (aka. An overgrown bit of wasteland between Gilbert Street and Kelvinhaugh Street is all that remains of this short stretch, now back-filled. As these were steam trains running along here there are large ventilation shafts overhead, from which you can peer down into the station from the park above. After the news that the physical stores will not reopen, leaving hundreds of jobs at risk, shoppers may now have to add themselves to a list of creditors that the business owes money to. However you can follow the line north to where it joined the main line in Jordanhill, a path well known to dog walkers in the area. The rear of the former Kelvinside station where the stairs would have gone down to the platform. This subject should interest many Glasgow folks as I've noticed a lot of questions on local forums being asked about the old steam days of the Central Low Level line, closed in 1964 under the Beeching cuts. The tunnel is still under the Tesco store at Maryhill I believe, just shut off at both ends. Entered at Dumbarton road, the station has now all gone underneath road redisign and a housing development west of Victoria Park bowling club. I know that there are many old railway cuttings and tunnels in the east end too, but this will focus on the pathways of the west end of Glasgow where I have grown up, and where I have noticed strange boarded up tunnels, cycle paths going over heavy duty iron bridges and several mysterious former platforms. We also took the walk through the tunnels in either direction. Once over the River Kelvin the line passes between Kelvinside allotments and a complex of new flats called Kirklee Mansions. The disused rail bridges here over Dumbarton Road were not removed until much later as I remember looking out the window of my aunt's flat on Dumbartron Road in the 1970s onto one of them. 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