Kelvinhall subway station
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Kelvinhall  | |
|---|---|
| Glasgow Subway | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Partick, Glasgow Scotland |
| Coordinates | 55°52′16″N 4°18′02″W / 55.87111°N 4.30056°W |
| Owned by | SPT |
| Operated by | Glasgow Subway |
| Platforms | 1 |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | Underground |
| Other information | |
| Fare zone | G |
| History | |
| Opened | 1896 as Partick Cross 1977 renamed Kelvinhall |
| Passengers | |
| 2018 | 1.344 million annually[1] |
Kelvinhall (Partick Cross until 1977) is an underground station on the Glasgow Subway, renamed after the nearby Kelvin Hall. It is located in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland, near to many of the city's best known tourist destinations including:
There was previously a Kelvin Hall railway station, but it was unattached to the subway station, which was at any rate still known as Partick Cross at the time of that station's closure in 1964 as part of the Beeching axe.
The station entrance is located off Dumbarton Road at the end of a narrow arcade of shops below flats. The station retains its original island platform layout and has no escalators. The renovation work at Kelvinhall station during the 1977-1980 modernisation of the Subway was not as extensive as most of the other stations on the network: other than Cessnock, it is the only station to retain its original entrance and surface buildings, which would be virtually invisible from the street without the signage.
Kelvinhall (under its former name of Partick Cross) is one of the stations mentioned in Cliff Hanley's song The Glasgow Underground.[2]
The Glasgow Subway is now operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT).
Past passenger numbers
- 2011/12: 0.646 million annually[3]
References
- ^ "Request for some usage statistics". Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2019 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.
- ^ YouTube - The Glasgow Underground
- ^ "Freedom of Information request: Subway station patronage - 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012". Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2019 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.
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