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Glasgow Cross Glasgow Cross is at the hub of the ancient royal burgh and now city of Glasgow, Scotland, close to its first crossing over the River Clyde. As a major junction in the city centre, its five streets run: north up the High Street to Glasgow Cathed ...

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 ...

, country = Scotland , coordinates = , grid_name =

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, grid_position = , manager = ScotRail , platforms = 2 , code = AXP , years = 1 July 1881 , events = Opened as Alexandra ParkButt (1995) , years1 = 1 January 1917 , events1 = Station closed , years2 = 2 June 1919 , events2 = Station reopened , years3 = 9 July 1923 , events3 = Station renamed Alexandra Parade , mpassengers = , footnotes = Passenger statistics from the

Office of Rail and Road The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the economic and safety regulation of Britain's railways, and the economic monitoring of National Highways. ORR regulates Network Rail by setting its ...

Alexandra Parade railway station is 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 ...

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...

. The station is east of on the Springburn branch of the

North Clyde Line The North Clyde Line (defined by Network Rail as the ''Glasgow North Electric Suburban'' line) is a suburban railway in West Central Scotland. The route is operated by ScotRail Trains. As a result of the incorporation of the Airdrie–Bathga ...

. The station is managed by ScotRail. It was built as part of the

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 ...

which provided a link across the Clyde (between the

Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway The Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway was the section of railway line between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Paisley, in the west of Scotland. It was constructed and operated jointly by two competing railway companies as the stem of ...

at Shields Junction and the

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was authorised by Act of Parliament on 4 July 1838. It was opened to passenger traffic on 21 February 1842, between its Glasgow Queen Street railway station (sometimes referred to at first as Dundas Street) and ...

at Sighthill Junction).

Services

* 2tph to via Glasgow Queen St Low Level, Yoker and * 2tph to Springburn On Sundays, an hourly Partick to Springburn service each way operates between 9am and 8pm.

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Railway stations in Glasgow Former North British Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1881 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919 SPT railway stations Railway stations served by ScotRail 1881 establishments in Scotland {{Glasgow-railstation-stub