Strathbungo railway station was a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...
serving the village of
Strathbungo
Strathbungo is a mainly residential area of southern Glasgow, Scotland, bordered by the neighbourhoods of Crossmyloof to the south, Govanhill to the east and Pollokshields to the north and west. The settlement grew up as a small isolated vill ...
,
Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire () ( sco, Renfrewshire; gd, Siorrachd Rinn FriĆ¹) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
Located in the west central Lowlands, it is one of three council areas contained within the boundaries of the historic county of Re ...
, (and later the city of
Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...
),
Scotland
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. The station was originally part of the
Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
The Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway was a railway jointly owned by the Caledonian Railway and the Glasgow and South Western Railway, completed in 1873, and giving the latter a shorter access to its Carlisle main line. A branch to ...
.
History
The station opened on 1 December 1877,
[Butt (1995), page 222] and was located close to the junction between the lines to
Glasgow St Enoch via Gorbals Junction (opened the year before the station itself, in 1876) and the older route towards (first opened in 1848 by the
Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
The Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway was a railway jointly owned by the Caledonian Railway and the Glasgow and South Western Railway, completed in 1873, and giving the latter a shorter access to its Carlisle main line. A branch to ...
).
It closed to passengers permanently on 28 May 1962.
Today little remains of the station at rail level. The former booking office building on the bridge above was in use as a local shop until 2022 when it was demolished during work to fully electrify the line, which also involved the temporary removal of the nearby footbridge (a category C
listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
).
Both lines meanwhile are still open as part of the
Glasgow South Western Line
The Glasgow South Western Line is a mainline railway in Scotland that runs from Glasgow to Kilmarnock, and then either via Dumfries, or Stranraer via Ayr, with a branch to East Kilbride.
History
The line was built by several railway compan ...
, though the old route towards has been freight-only since the closure of St Enoch station in 1966 - it now links into the
West Coast Main Line
The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London and Glasgow with branches to Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Edinburgh. It is one of the busiest ...
at Larkfield Junction (using a section of the former
Pollok and Govan Railway) as the section beyond Langside Junction onto the former
City of Glasgow Union Railway
The City of Glasgow Union Railway - City Union Line, also known as the ''Tron Line'', was a railway company founded in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1864 to build a line connecting the railway systems north and south of the River Clyde, and to build a c ...
was closed in 1973 and subsequently lifted.
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Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1877
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962
Disused railway stations in Glasgow
Former Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway stations
Pollokshields
1877 establishments in Scotland
1962 disestablishments in Scotland
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