Main Street railway station,

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, Scotland, was built by the

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while the new line from Shields Junction to

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was being developed in the 1870s. It was situated adjacent to Gorbals station, which served trains on the Barrhead branch line to St Enoch, close to where the two lines merged at Gorbals Junction. Remnants of both stations can still be seen in Gorbals Street and Hospital Street. Main Street station was in use from 1872 until 1900, when a new station in Cumberland Street replaced it, following the doubling of the track from Port Eglinton to St Enoch station.Glasgow and South Western Railway 1850-1923, Stephenson Locomotive Society, 1950

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Photographs, maps and plans of disused stations in Gorbals
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1872 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1900 Disused railway stations in Glasgow Former Glasgow and South Western Railway stations Gorbals {{Glasgow-railstation-stub