View from S showing Dalmuir - Rutherglen train passing E end of platform

Description View from S showing Dalmuir - Rutherglen train passing E end of platform

Date 1/10/1964

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 794993

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Train at Partick Central Station (Kelvin Hall Station), Glasgow This shows a Dalmuir-Rutherglen train at the station, on 1 October 1964, shortly before services ceased. Note the massive concrete retaining wall above the River Kelvin. The line of the street in the background - Partick Bridge Street - marks the position of a medieval bridge over the River Kelvin. Partick Bridge was demolished to make way for the railway. The locomotive in this view, taken from the south, is a British Railways standard 4MT 2-6-0, a type that operated many of the trains on this line in its last years. The station site is now partly taken up by modern flats. Kelvin Hall Station was originally Partick (Central) Station on the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway, and opened in 1896. Passenger services on this line originally went as far as Balloch, but after electrification of the North Side suburban services in 1961 were cut back to Dalmuir (Riverside). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT46

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