Archaeology Notes

Event ID 664167

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/664167

NS56NE 214 5681 6738.

For (adjacent) Botanic Gardens, see NS56NE 83.00.

Not to be confused with Glasgow, 1051 Great Western Road, Kelvinside Station (NS 5564 6807), for which see NS56NE 1036.

Sta (dis) [NAT] (depicted as roofless: open rectangle)

OS 1:10,000 map, 1984.

Botanic Gardens Station, Great Western Rd, built c. 1894 for the Glasgow Central Rly. by James Miller, architect. An unusual and attractive station, with the platforms and waiting rooms underground. The booking office was in a red brick building with a steeply pitched roof having two towers with galleries, surmounted by gilded onion domes. The centre portion of the frontage was a verandah, and there were end pavilions. Destroyed by fire in 1970.

J R Hume 1974.

This intermediate station was opened 10 August 1896 by the Glasgow Central Rly. It was closed to regular passenger traffic on 1 January 1917 but was reopened on 1 June 1919 and closed again (by the London Midland and Scottish Rly.) on 6 February 1939.

R V J Butt 1995.