Pollokshields railway station was a

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Pollokshields Pollokshields ( gd, Buthan Phollaig, Scots: ''Powkshiels'') is an area in the Southside of Glasgow, Scotland. Its modern boundaries are largely man-made, being formed by the M77 motorway to the west and northwest with the open land of Pollok ...

, a district of

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. The station was originally part of the

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. It was opened in 1840 and amalgamated into the neighbouring Shields Road station in 1925.

History

Sources published in the late 20th century claim that Pollokshields station opened on 14 July 1840.Butt (1995), page 187 Contemporary 19th century sources would suggest however that both Pollokshields station and Shields Road station were created as part of the general reorganisation of rail links between Paisley and Glasgow in the 1870s, in preparation for the opening of

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and

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. The adjacent Shields station was developed around the time that the Paisley Canal Line opened in 1885. Pollokshields station amalgamated with Shields Road station and Shields station on 1 April 1925, creating a larger Shields Road station. This combined station was located within the complex of lines forming Shields Junction. In 2007, part of the platforms where the

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and the

crossed over the former

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are still visible.

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Photographs and historical maps of Shields Junction, Glasgow, before and after the building of the stations
{{Glasgow railway stations Disused railway stations in Glasgow Former Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840 Pollokshields

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