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Kelvinbridge
The remains of the station in 2007.
General information
Location	Kelvinbridge,Glasgow Scotland
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Glasgow Central Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
10 August 1896	Opened
4 August 1952[1]	Station closed to passengers
6 July 1964	Station closed to freight
5 October 1964	Line closed
August 1968	Station building destroyed by fire
Location

Kelvinbridge was a railway station for theKelvinbridge area in the West End ofGlasgow, close toKelvinbridge subway station on theGlasgow Subway.

This station was opened on 10 August 1896.

It served as the mainline station for taking visitors to the1901 Glasgow International Exhibition.

It was closed to passengers on 4 August 1952 and to freight on 6 July 1964, with the line being closed on 5 October 1964.

The building was destroyed by fire in August 1968.

The line entered the station site in the south east corner passing under Gibson Street next to theRiver Kelvin and ran alongside the east side of the river until reaching the north west corner when it crossed the river prior to passing under Caledonian Crescent where the station building was located. The goods yard was located to the east of the line, and was converted to a park and ride car park in 1965.

The station building was designed by well known Glasgow architectJames Miller who designed many other Caledonian Railway stations, includingBotanic Gardens which was the next stop on the line. It was in a style similar to other stations designed by Miller at the time. It was destroyed by a fire started by children while abandoned in August 1968.^[2] The outer walls with some decorative stonework as well as the base of an entrance vestibule with the pattern and fragments of the black and white checked floor tiles remain. Above the station site and mouth of the tunnel isCaledonian Mansions which was built by the Caledonian Railway company on land it purchased for tunnel construction. The company's monogram is still visible on the east side of the mansions on Caledonian Crescent, just uphill from the station site.

At the north west corner of the site the formation of the line from the station towardsBotanic Gardens passes under Otago Street where the station buildings were located, before entering the tunnel under Great Western Road.

It was through the tunnel (at the south of the site) to Stobcross that theRiver Kelvin flowed when it burst its banks at the site of the station goods yard in December 1994.^[3] As part of the flood defence measures put in place, a bank was put in place in front of the tunnel mouth.

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  Looking across the railway bridge towards the location of the station buildings.
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  The line passing under Caledonian Crescent.
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  The entrance of the tunnel toBotanic Gardens.
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  The entrance to the tunnel toStobcross.
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  Under the bridge is the bank put in place following the December 1994 flood to prevent water flowing down the tunnel.

• 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.
• 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.
• Urquhart, Gordon R. (2000). 'Along Great Western Road: An Illustrated History of Glasgow's West End'. Stenlake Publishing.ISBN 1-84033-115-1.

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• Disused railway stations in Glasgow
• Former Caledonian Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1896
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952
• Train and rapid transit fires
• Building and structure fires in Scotland
• 1968 disasters in the United Kingdom
• James Miller railway stations
• 1960s fires in the United Kingdom
• 1968 fires
• Disasters in Glasgow
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