Partickhill railway station was a railway station serving the

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area of

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. The station was opened by the

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in 1874 on the north side of Dumbarton Road. At some periods during its existence it was described as Partick for Govan in some timetables.

History

It was at one stage, one of three stations in Partick, along with the

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and

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stations, but was the only one of the three stations to be spared in the

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of the mid-1960s, having been extensively rebuilt in 1958. The station closed in 1979, when the

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were reopening the

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(itself a victim of the Beeching axe), they decided to open a new

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on the same site as

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, which was itself undergoing refurbishment as part of the overall upgrade of the

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that was undertaken in the late 1970s. With this new Partick station, which worked as an interchange with bus and subway services being separated by only a bridge over Dumbarton Road from the site of the Partickhill station it was decided that the Partickhill site was now redundant and the station closed. Much of its structures are still visible to the present day, including the platforms.

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Video footage of Partickhill and Partick Stations
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