Merkland Street subway station

Merkland Street subway station
Merkland Street
Location
Place Partick
Area Glasgow
Coordinates 55°52′12″N 4°18′35″W / 55.8701°N 4.3097°W / 55.8701; -4.3097Coordinates: 55°52′12″N 4°18′35″W / 55.8701°N 4.3097°W / 55.8701; -4.3097
Operations
Original company Glasgow District Subway
Platforms 2
History
14 December 1896 Station opened & closed same day[1]
21 January 1897 Station reopened[1]
21 May 1977 Station closed[1]
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Merkland Street station was on the subway in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the only station on the system that has closed permanently. The station opened in 1896. It was located 25 metres to the south-west of Partick station, about 300 metres to the south of Partickhill railway station. It closed permanently in 1977 when the rest of the network was closed for modernisation. When the network reopened in 1980, it was replaced by a new station nearby named Partick, offering direct transfers to the rail station of the same name. There is evidence of Merkland Street station's existence due to a long straight and humped stretch on the underground with large diameter tunnels, although the platforms and station buildings no longer remain.

In 1940, during World War II, a German bomb hit the station and it was closed for many months.

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Butt (1995), page 158

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