Pollokshields
General information
Location	Pollokshields,Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55°50′52″N4°16′33″W / 55.8478°N 4.2759°W /55.8478; -4.2759
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian andGlasgow & South Western Railways
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
14 July 1840	Opened[1]
1 April 1925	Amalgamated intoShields Road[1]

Pollokshields railway station was arailway station inPollokshields, a district ofGlasgow,Scotland. The station was originally part of theGlasgow and Paisley Joint Railway. It was opened in 1840 and amalgamated into the neighbouringShields Road station in 1925.

Sources published in the late 20th century claim that Pollokshields station opened on 14 July 1840.^[1] Contemporary 19th century sources would suggest however that both Pollokshields station andShields Road station were created as part of the general reorganisation of rail links between Paisley and Glasgow in the 1870s, in preparation for the opening ofSt Enoch station andGlasgow Central station. The adjacentShields station was developed around the time that thePaisley Canal Line opened in 1885.

Pollokshields station amalgamated with Shields Road station and Shields station on 1 April 1925,^[1] creating a larger Shields Road station. This combined station was located within the complex of lines forming Shields Junction. In 2007, part of the platforms where theCity of Glasgow Union Railway and theGlasgow and Paisley Joint Railway crossed over the formerGeneral Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway are still visible.

• Pollokshields East railway station
• Pollokshields West railway station

• 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.

• Photographs and historical maps of Shields Junction, Glasgow, before and after the building of the stations

• Disused railway stations in Glasgow
• Former Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840
• Pollokshields

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