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Stobcross Railway The Stobcross Railway was a railway line in Glasgow, Scotland, built by the North British Railway to connect from Maryhill to the new dock being built at Stobcross; the dock became the Queen's Dock, opened in 1877. The line was opened first, in ...

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, years = 20 October 1874 , events = Station opened as Great Western Road , years1 = 9 January 1931 , events1 = Station renamed Anniesland , mpassengers = , footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road Anniesland 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 Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...

that serves the Anniesland suburb of

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to ...

. The station is served by

as part of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network. It is located on the Argyle Line, west of Glasgow Central (Low Level), on 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 ...

west of Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level), and is the terminus of the Maryhill Line away from Glasgow Queen Street (High Level).

History

Opened by the

in 1874 on their route linking the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway at Maryhill to Queens Dock (the site that is now occupied by the Scottish Exhibition Centre) on the north side of the

River Clyde The River Clyde ( gd, Abhainn Chluaidh, , sco, Clyde Watter, or ) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. It is the ninth-longest river in the United Kingdom, and the third-longest in Scotland. It runs through the major cit ...

(the

), it became part of the

during the

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of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on

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in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced by

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in the 1980s, the station was served by

until the

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. The line towards (which was opened some years after the Maryhill line in 1886 as part of the

Glasgow City and District Railway The Glasgow City and District Railway was a sub-surface railway line in Glasgow, Scotland, built to connect suburban routes east and west of the city, and to relieve congestion at the Queen Street terminus. Construction of the cut-and-cover ro ...

) was electrified in 1960, along with the line southwards to & as part of the

modernisation scheme. The chord from Maryhill (which was part of the original Stobcross Railway route) remains diesel worked. This chord was closed completely in 1985 and lifted three years later (after being disused since 1980), but relaid and reopened in 2005 when the Maryhill Line was extended as part of the project to re-open the railway to Larkhall on the Argyle Line. After the 2005 re-opening, there had been no physical link between the two routes here – the single line from Maryhill Park Junction terminated in its own separate bay platform (number 3) on the eastern side of the station and the two routes were under the control of different signalling centres. However, in late 2015,

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carried out a programme of works to connect the Maryhill chord to the

, just north of Anniesland station. This was done to provide a diversionary route from the main Edinburgh to Glasgow line into Low Level while the High Level station was shut during 2016 for tunnel works; however, it is intended that the new connection be permanent.

Services

There is a regular service daily from Anniesland to Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level) on the

and to Glasgow Central (Low Level) on the Argyle Line. Destinations that are accessible from Anniesland are , and (Mondays-Saturdays) and (Sundays) northwestbound and , , and on the Argyle Line and (Monday-Saturday daytimes) and Edinburgh Waverley on the North Clyde Line southeastbound. Argyle line arrivals are from Motherwell (hourly), Whifflet (hourly) and . There is a half-hourly service from Anniesland on the Maryhill Line to Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) via Monday to Saturdays. Since a timetable revision on 18 May 2014, a limited hourly Sunday service operates on the route via Maryhill.GB WTT 13 December 2015 to 14 May 2016 Edition, Section GA12

References

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Station on navigable O.S. map
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