Anderston railway station

Anderston
Platforms at Anderston
Location
Place	Anderston
Local authority	Glasgow
Coordinates	55.860°N 4.272°W / 55.860; -4.272
Operations
Station code	AND
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	163,967
2004/05 *	240,667
2005/06 *	340,728
2006/07 *	381,946
2007/08 *	428,595
2008/09 *	561,908
2009/10 *	551,894
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Glasgow Central Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
10 August 1896	Station opened as Anderston Cross
3 August 1959	Station closed
1968	Station building demolished for Kingston Bridge construction
5 November 1979	Station re-opened as Anderston
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Anderston from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Anderston railway station serves Glasgow's Financial district of Anderston and, across the M8 motorway, the housing schemes of both Anderston West and the Blythswood Court estate of the Anderston Centre. It is also close to both the Hilton and Marriott hotels. It is a manned station with an island platform and most of it is underground.

History

The station was opened on 10 August 1896, closing on 3 August 1959. Opened by the Glasgow Central Railway, then by Caledonian Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Transport Commission

Reopened by the British Railways Board and Strathclyde PTE, when Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail under arrangement with the PTE until the Privatisation of British Railways.

The original building was demolished in 1968 as, like many other ornate and historical buildings in the area, it lay in the path of the M8 motorway. The station, reopened as part of the Argyle Line project on 5 November 1979, retains some of the original architecture at platform level.

Ticket barriers came into operation on 22 June 2011.

Gallery

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  Anderston station platform

Services

This was the terminus point for the Limited Stop service to Hamilton Central but these services now run between Dalmuir and Larkhall although they still call here. There is no Sunday service and although the platforms are lit, etc., the station does not open.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Glasgow Central (Low Level)		First ScotRail Argyle Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Exhibition Centre
	Historical railways
Glasgow Central (Low Level) Line open; station open		Caledonian Railway Glasgow Central Railway		Stobcross Line open; station open

References

Sources

• 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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Johnston, Colin; Hulme, John H. (1979). Glasgow Stations (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-7569-5. OCLC 6091133. 
• 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.