Kelvinhall subway station

Kelvinhall
Scottish Gaelic: Taigh Cheilbhinn[1]
General information
Location	7 Dalcross Path Partick, Glasgow, G11 5RA[2] Scotland
Coordinates	55°52′16″N 4°18′02″W
Operated by	SPT
Platforms	2 (island platform)
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Parking	No[2]
Bicycle facilities	No[2]
Accessible	No[3]
History
Opened	14 December 1896
Rebuilt	16 April 1980; 44 years ago (1980-04-16)
Previous names	Partick Cross (1896–1977)
Passengers
2018	0.686 million[4]
2019	0.708 million[5]
2020	0.232 million[5]
2021	0.321 million[5]
2022	0.641 million[6]
Services
Preceding station SPT Following station Partick anticlockwise / inner circle Glasgow Subway Hillhead clockwise / outer circle
Location
Notes Passenger statistics provided are gate entries only. Information on gate exits for patronage is incomplete, and thus not included.[7]

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:

• The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
• Kelvingrove Park
• The University of Glasgow

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.^[8]

The Glasgow Subway is operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT).

Transport links

First Glasgow operated bus routes 2, 3, 8, 77, 90, M4 and N2 serve the station.^[9] Other bus routes that serve Kelvinhall are the riversider service 100, operated by Community Transport Glasgow,^[10] routes 189 and 190, operated by Hobson Travel and ARG Travel,^[11] and routes X25 and X25A, operated by Stagecoach West Scotland.^[12]

Past passenger numbers

• 2011/12: 0.646 million annually^[13]

Gallery

• 
  Island platform

References

1. King, Jake (12 July 2020). "Glasgow's Gaelic Underground". Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
2. "Maps & stations". spt.co.uk. Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. Archived from the original on 15 January 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
3. "Accessibility & mobility". spt.co.uk. Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. Archived from the original on 7 November 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
4. "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.
5. "Station usage statistics" (PDF). Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 20 July 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.
6. "Request for annual Subway station patronage 2022". 22 February 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.
7. "Freedom of Information Request: Subway Station Usage Statistics" (PDF). Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 3 August 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.
8. "YouTube - The Glasgow Underground". Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
9. "Glasgow Network Map" (PDF). First Glasgow. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
10. "Bus Timetable - 100 Riversider" (PDF). Glasgow Life. 26 February 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
11. "Bus Timetable - 189/190" (PDF). SPT. 5 February 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
12. "X25 Bus Route & Timetable: Buchanan Bus Station, Glasgow - Oak Road, Abronhill, Cumbernauld". Stagecoach West Scotland. Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
13. "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.