Kelvinbridge subway station

Kelvinbridge subway station is a Glasgow Subway station serving the Woodlands, Woodside and Hillhead areas of Glasgow, Scotland. It is named after the bridge crossing the River Kelvin, next to the station. This station is one of the two serving Kelvingrove Park, the other being Kelvinhall.

Kelvinbridge

Scottish Gaelic: Drochaid Cheilbhinn
LocationKelvinbridge, Glasgow
Scotland
Coordinates55°52′27″N 4°16′50″W
Operated bySPT
Platforms1
Construction
Structure typeunderground
Other information
Fare zoneG
History
Opened14 December 1896
Rebuilt1977–1980
Passengers
20182.054 million annually[1]

The station – along with the rest of the Subway system – was opened in 1896 and closed for refurbishment in 1977, reopening in 1980. It retains the original island platform layout, and is by far the busiest station to retain this configuration.

The station has a car park, built on the site of the goods yard at Kelvinbridge on the Stobcross to Maryhill Central line.

The station is the deepest station in the network due to its close proximity to the River Kelvin, and was originally entered through a tenement block on South Woodside Road with access to Great Western Road via an external cast iron staircase descending from the eponymous bridge. Following modernisation, a purpose-built surface-level ticket hall has offered direct access to the new main entrance on Great Western Road via a glass-enclosed escalator.

The former station entrance is now the emergency exit from today's station, the emergency exit being marked by red doors at the bottom of the iron staircase, and "keep clear" signs.

Past passenger numbers

  • 2011/12: 0.913 million annually[2]

References

  1. "Request for some usage statistics". Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 11 January 2019. Archived from the original on 1 March 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2019 via WhatDoTheyKnow.
  2. "Freedom of Information request: Subway station patronage - 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012". Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 18 December 2012. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019 via WhatDoTheyKnow.
Preceding station   Strathclyde Partnership for Transport   Following station
Hillhead   Glasgow Subway   St George's Cross


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