Glasgow, 1 Salisbury Street, Eglinton Street Railway Station
Railway Station (20th Century)(Possible)
Site Name Glasgow, 1 Salisbury Street, Eglinton Street Railway Station
Classification Railway Station (20th Century)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Former Cumberland Street Station
Canmore ID 168235
Site Number NS56SE 892
NGR NS 58809 63978
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/168235
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS56SE 892 58809 63978
See also NS56SE 605.
NMRS NOTES
Glasgow, Eglinton Street Station.
ARCHITECT: William Melville.
Opened .1.10.1900, closed 14.02.1966.
Renamed Cumberland Street Station.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Single storey and attic 4-1-1 bay classical former station entrance on corner site. Coursed red sandstone channelled at ground. Base course, string course, eaves cornice, deep parapet, columned and pedimented doorpiece. Keystoned openings. NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: (at corner of Salisbury Street and Cumberland Street) single bay with advanced doorpiece with pair of Doric columns. Above, lettering, 'STATION' within floral motifs. Round-arched doorway, now part-blocked.
A simple, yet imposing building strikingly set on a corner site within the railway arches of the elevated railway. Echoes the 'Barrieres' designs of Ledoux, in its severe, well-detailed classical and monumental form. Smith notes that the original line of arches was widened in 1900 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway to form a high level four platform station called Eglinton Street Station, later becoming Cumberland Street Station. An important part of Glasgow's railway history in an area which has changed considerably in the last 50 years. (Historic Scotland)
