Queens Park railway station (Scotland)

Queen's Park railway station is a railway station serving the Queen's Park, Govanhill and Strathbungo areas of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the Cathcart Circle Line. Services are provided by Abellio ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.

Queen's Park (Glasgow)
Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc na Banrighinn[1]
Looking north west towards Pollokshields East
Location
Place	Queen's Park
Local authority	Glasgow
Coordinates	55.8353°N 4.2669°W / 55.8353; -4.2669
Grid reference	NS581625
Operations
Station code	QPK
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.624 million
2015/16	0.687 million
2016/17	0.698 million
2017/18	0.766 million
2018/19	0.767 million
History
Original company	Cathcart District Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
1 March 1886	Opened[2][3]
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Queen's Park (Glasgow) from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

Queen's Park station opened with the first section of the Cathcart District Railway, which opened as far as Mount Florida on 1 March 1886[3] (the line through to the first Cathcart station opened a few months later, on 25 May 1886).[3] The station maintains its original island platform and station building to this day.

The lines through the station were electrified under British Railways as part of the Glasgow South Bank Electrification in May 1962.

From July to August 2008, the Cathcart Circle was closed for a short period to allow for subsidence repair works near Pollokshields East railway station. During this closure, Queen's Park was, along with several other stations on the line, one of the first to receive the new Abellio ScotRail colours and signage that would replace Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and the incumbent franchise holder's branding.

Queen's Park station is now protected as a category B listed building.[4] In 2011, part of the station was converted to house Queen's Park Railway Club, a contemporary art space.

Services

1979

Service provision consisted of two trains per hour between Neilston and Glasgow Central, two trains per hours between Newton and Glasgow Central, two trains per hour serving the Cathcart Inner Circle and two trains per hour serving the Cathcart Outer Circle Service.

2016

Service provision consists of two trains per hour between Neilston and Glasgow Central, one train per hour between Newton and Glasgow Central, one train per hour serving the Cathcart Inner Circle and one train per hour serving the Cathcart Outer Circle Service.[5] The Circle services do not operate on Sundays, so the overall frequency at the station drops to 3 per hour each way.

Routes

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Crosshill		Abellio ScotRail Cathcart Circle		Pollokshields East
	Historical railways
Crosshill Line and station open		Caledonian Railway Cathcart District Railway		Pollokshields East Line and station open

References

Notes

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt (1995), p. 193
3. Kernahan (1980)
4. (Historic Environment Scotland & LB32466)
5. Table 223 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Butt, R. V. J. (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.
• Historic Environment Scotland. "Victoria Road, Queen's Park Station  (Category B) (LB32466)". Retrieved 20 March 2019.
• Kernahan, Jack (1980). The Cathcart Circle. Falkirk, Stirlingshire: Scottish Railway Preservation Society. ISBN 0-9043-9601-0. OCLC 85045869.
• 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.

External links

• Queens Park Railway Club