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Ibrox subway station is a station serving the Ibrox area of
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. The station was known as Copland Road until 1977. The station's surface buildings were replaced during the Subway's modernisation programme, with the main entrance still located on Copland Road. The station now has a
side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platfor ...
arrangement for boarding the trains. Particularly of note nearby is
Ibrox Stadium Ibrox Stadium is a football stadium on the south side of the River Clyde in the Ibrox area of Glasgow, Scotland. The home of Rangers Football Club, Ibrox is the third largest football stadium in Scotland, with an all-seated capacity of . ...
, home of
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The station is extremely busy on matchdays, with an additional entrance on Woodville Street opening to accommodate the vastly increased volume of passenger traffic. However, the station is generally quiet at other times and records around 540,000 boardings per year.http://www.spt.co.uk/publications/stats2005/s&t2005.pdf
''spt.co.uk'' Also nearby is
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, although SPT suggest that Cessnock station is the alighting point for the Science Centre, as it is closer.


Past passenger numbers

* 2004/05: 0.520 million annually * 2011/12: 0.510 million annually


References

{{Glasgow stations Glasgow Subway stations Govan Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1896 1896 establishments in Scotland