Archaeology Notes

Event ID 701981

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56SE 80 56808 61446

Station [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1989.

Location formerly cited as NS 5680 6144.

Not to be confused with Pollokshaws West Station (NS 55909 61356), for which see NS56SE 81.

Opened 2.4.1894

Cathcart District Railway

Electrified 29.9.1962.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Pollokshaws East Station, Kilmarnock Road, built c. 1894 for the Cathcart District Rly. An island platform station, similar in most respects to those at Shawlands and Langside, but unusually the offices are on a masonry arch bridge over the White Cart Water. Approach at bot ends is by subway, that at the N end crossing Coustonholm Road on a lattice girder footbridge.

J R Hume 1974.

This intermediate station on the Cathcart Circle (suburban) line of the former Caledonian Rly was opened (by the Cathcart District Rly) on 2 April 1894. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic; the line has been electrified.

This station incorporates a bridge which carries the railway over the White Cart Water.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 February 2006.

R V J Butt 1995.