Queens Park railway station (Scotland)

Queens Park (Glasgow) Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc na Banrighinn[1]
Looking north west towards Pollokshields East
General information
Location	Queen's Park, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55.8353°N 4.2669°W / 55.8353; -4.2669
Grid reference	NS581625
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	QPK
History
Original company	Cathcart District Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
1 March 1886	Opened[2][3]
Passengers
2019/20	0.782 million
2020/21	0.168 million
2021/22	0.408 million
2022/23	0.519 million
2023/24	0.670 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Queens 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 ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.

History

Cathcart Circle Lines route map

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 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.^[5]

In 2018 through 2019, over 750,000 passenger journeys were recorded going to or coming from Queen’s Park Station.^[5]

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.^[6] 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		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. "Queen's Park Train Station". SGHET. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
6. 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.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• Historic Environment Scotland. "Victoria Road, Queen's Park Station (Category B Listed Building) (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