Alexandra Parade railway station
Location | Glasgow Cross, Glasgow Scotland |
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Coordinates | 55°51′49″N 4°12′39″W / 55.8637°N 4.2107°WCoordinates: 55°51′49″N 4°12′39″W / 55.8637°N 4.2107°W |
Grid reference | NS617655 |
Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | AXP |
Key dates | |
1 July 1881 | Opened as Alexandra Park[2] |
1 January 1917 | Station closed[2] |
2 June 1919 | Station reopened[2] |
9 July 1923 | Station renamed Alexandra Parade[2] |
Passengers | |
2016/17 | 0.322 million |
2017/18 | 0.365 million |
2018/19 | 0.419 million |
2019/20 | 0.393 million |
2020/21 | 59,874 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
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Alexandra Parade railway station is a railway station in Glasgow, Scotland. The station is 1+3⁄4 miles (2.8 km) east of Glasgow Queen Street on the Springburn branch of the North Clyde Line. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail.
It was built as part of the City of Glasgow Union Railway which provided a link across the Clyde (between the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway at Shields Junction and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at Sighthill Junction).
Services[]
- 2tph to Dumbarton Central via Glasgow Queen St Low Level, Yoker and Dalmuir
- 2tph to Springburn
On Sundays, an hourly Partick to Springburn service each way operates between 9am and 8pm.[3]
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Barnhill | Abellio ScotRail North Clyde Line |
Duke Street | ||
Historical railways | ||||
Garngad Line open; Station closed |
City of Glasgow Union Railway G&SWR and NBR |
Duke Street Line and Station open |
References[]
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. (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.
- 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[]
Media related to Alexandra Parade railway station at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Railway stations in Glasgow
- Former North British Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1881
- Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
- SPT railway stations
- Railway stations served by Abellio ScotRail
- 1881 establishments in Scotland
- Glasgow railway station stubs