Shields Road subway station

Shields Road subway station is a station of Glasgow Subway, serving the Pollokshields and Kingston areas of Glasgow, Scotland. Nearby is Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Scotland Street School Museum. This was one of four (now three[2]) stations which has Park and Ride facilities.

Shields Road
View of the platform at Shields Road.
LocationKingston, Glasgow
Scotland
Coordinates55°51′01″N 4°16′28″W
Operated bySPT
Platforms1
Construction
Structure typeunderground
Other information
Fare zoneG
Passengers
20180.994 million annually[1]

The station has been left in an industrial area by post-war reconstruction and is isolated from surrounding areas by the M8 motorway and approach roads for the Kingston Bridge. There were 460,000 passengers in the 12 months to 31 March 2005.[3] These trips were largely generated by the adjacent 'Park & Ride' car park. The car park was rebuilt with over 800 spaces in a project that ended in September 2006.

The east end of the car park is closer to the entrance of West Street subway station.

The station is actually on Scotland Street, not Shields Road. There has been some consideration of changing its name.

Shields Road is one of the stations mentioned in Cliff Hanley's song The Glasgow Underground.[4]

Past passenger numbers
  • 2004/05: 0.460 million annually
  • 2011/12: 0.457 million annually[5]
Preceding station   Strathclyde Partnership for Transport   Following station
West Street   Glasgow Subway   Kinning Park

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. "Subway car park axed to build M74 missing link". Archived from the original on 19 February 2009. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  3. Statistics & trends 2005 Archived 28 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "YouTube - The Glasgow Underground". Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  5. "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.
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