Archaeology Notes

Event ID 846869

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56SE 2174 57621 64208

Not to be confused with Shields Road Station (NS 5763 6394), for which see NS56SE 414.

For general account of the Glasgow Subway system, see NS56NE 4915.

Shields Road

Underground Station

(Glasgow Corporation) [NAT]

OS 1:1250 map, 1972.

Shields Road Station (Glasgow Subway). This station was opened by the Glasgow District Subway on 14 December 1896, but closed the same day (with the remainder of the system); it was reopened on 21 January 1897. Together with the remainder of the system, the station was closed for refurbishment by the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive on 21 May 1977. It was reopened on 16 April 1980, and remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 February 2006.

R V J Butt 1995.