Partick Central railway station
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Partick Central railway station was a railway station serving the Partick area of the city of Glasgow. Built in the 1890s by the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway Company it sat on a line that ran along the north bank of the River Clyde from Stobcross to Dumbarton. The station was renamed Kelvin Hall in 1959, as it was in the vicinity of the building of that name, and was close, but not attached to, the Partick Cross station on the Glasgow Subway.
Passenger and goods services to the station were ceased in 1964 when it closed as part of the Beeching cuts to rail services across the UK. The station building is still standing and has been used variously as a workshop and auction hall, but presently lies empty. The remains of the platforms and track bed, which were underneath the station building, have been removed, but the railway's route is fairly discernable. The station's goods yard served as a site for travelling people and as a scrap merchants. The site lies empty and awaiting redevelopment, and in 2004 it emerged that the supermarket chain Tesco wish to develop an operation there.
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| Preceding station | Disused Railways | Following station | ||
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| Stobcross now named Exhibition Centre Station open |
Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway | Partick West | ||
