Anniesland railway station is a railway station that serves the Anniesland suburb of Glasgow, Scotland.
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Anniesland, Glasgow Scotland | ||||
| Coordinates | 55°53′23″N 4°19′18″W / 55.8898°N 4.3217°W | ||||
| Grid reference | NS548687 | ||||
| Managed by | ScotRail | ||||
| Transit authority | SPT | ||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | ANL | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Stobcross Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | North British Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 20 October 1874 | Station opened as Great Western Road | ||||
| 9 January 1931 | Station renamed Anniesland | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  1.136 million | ||||
| 2019/20 |  1.145 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.173 million | ||||
| 2021/22 | 0.565 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.735 million | ||||
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The station is served by ScotRail as part of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network.
It is located on the Argyle Line, 3+3⁄4 miles (6.0 km) west of Glasgow Central (Low Level), on the North Clyde Line 4+1⁄4 miles (6.8 km) west of Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level), and is the terminus of the Maryhill Line 6+1⁄4 miles (10.1 km) away from Glasgow Queen Street (High Level).
History
editOriginally called Great Western Road[2], the station was opened by the North British Railway 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 Stobcross Railway), it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When Sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail.
The line towards Westerton (which was opened some years after the Maryhill line in 1886 as part of the Glasgow City and District Railway) was electrified in 1960, along with the line southwards to Jordanhill & Hyndland as part of the North Clyde Line 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, Network Rail carried out a programme of works to connect the Maryhill chord to the North Clyde Line, just north of Anniesland station.[3] This was done to provide a diversionary route from the main Edinburgh to Glasgow line into Glasgow Queen Street Low Level while the High Level station was shut during 2016 for tunnel works; however, it is intended that the new connection be permanent.[4]
In October 2024, new lifts were opened allowing the station to be accessed step-free.[5]
Services
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There is a regular service daily from Anniesland to Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level) on the North Clyde Line and to Glasgow Central (Low Level) on the Argyle Line.[6]
Destinations that are accessible from Anniesland are Balloch, Milngavie and Dalmuir (Mondays-Saturdays) and Helensburgh Central (Sundays) northwestbound and Whifflet, Motherwell, and Cumbernauld on the Argyle Line and Airdrie (Monday-Saturday daytimes) and Edinburgh Waverley on the North Clyde Line southeastbound. Argyle line arrivals are from Motherwell (hourly), Whifflet (hourly) and Larkhall.
There is a half-hourly service from Anniesland on the Maryhill Line to Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) via Maryhill Monday to Saturdays.[7]
Since a timetable revision on 18 May 2014, a limited hourly Sunday service operates on the route via Maryhill.[8]
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Terminus | ScotRail Maryhill Line |
Kelvindale | ||
| Hyndland | ScotRail Argyle Line |
Westerton | ||
| Hyndland | ScotRail North Clyde Line |
Westerton | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Partickhill | North British Railway Stobcross Railway |
Maryhill | ||
| connection to Stobcross railway |
North British Railway Glasgow City and District Railway |
Westerton | ||
| Whiteinch Victoria Park | North British Railway Whiteinch Railway |
connection to Stobcross railway | ||
| Scotstounhill | North British Railway Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway |
connection to Stobcross railway | ||
References
edit- ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
- ^ Transport, The Claythorn Story, Claythorn Community Council, https://claythorncc.wordpress.com/the-claythorn-story/
- ^ Service Alterations - Anniesland Station
- ^ Edinburgh to Glasgow works Rail Engineer (retrieved 29-01-2016)
- ^ "Train station becomes step free as accessibility project completed". Yahoo News. 5 October 2024. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
- ^ Table 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016
- ^ GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 232
- ^ GB WTT 13 December 2015 to 14 May 2016 Edition, Section GA12
Sources
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- Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
- Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
- Station on navigable O.S. map