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Glasgow, Mount Florida, Florida Drive, Mount Florida Station
Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, Mount Florida, Florida Drive, Mount Florida Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Canmore ID 44332
Site Number NS56SE 68
NGR NS 58458 61566
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44332
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Cathcart (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS56SE 68 58458 61566
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OS 1:10,000 map, 1989.
Location formerly entered as NS 5845 6159.
Opened 01/03/1886 (Cathcart District Railway); electrified 29/05/1962.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Mount Florida Station, built c. 1886 for the Cathcart District Rly. An island-platform station in a deep cutting, with access at both ends by footbridge. The wooden platform building is similar to that at Queens Park (NS56SE 940).
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 1 March 1886. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic; the line has been electrified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 February 2006.
