Shields Road railway station was a

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. Opened in 1870, it was expanded in 1925 when the adjacent

and

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stations were amalgamated into it. It closed in 1966.

History

The station was built by the

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on the original 1840 line from Paisley to Glasgow. It opened in the early 1870s,Smith, W.A.C. and Anderson, P. (1993) around the time when the line was being diverted from Bridge Street to the new

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in the city centre, initially terminating at . Contemporary maps show that there were no stations at Shields Junction, prior to the general reorganisation of rail links between Paisley and Glasgow in the 1870s, in preparation for the opening of the new city centre terminals. From 1885, however, after Shields station opened, there were three adjacent stations at this site, each with their own booking offices fronting Shields Road. Shields Road station was the largest of the three, sharing one of its platforms with Pollokshields station, which had been squeezed into the northern part of the complex, on the new track which had been laid to establish a link between Paisley and the

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’s proposed

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. The three stations at Shields Junction were amalgamated in 1925, creating a larger Shields Road station, which was in use until 1966, when train services to St Enoch ended.

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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 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1870 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1925 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 Beeching closures in Scotland Former Glasgow and South Western Railway stations Pollokshields