Glasgow Bridge Street railway station
| Glasgow Bridge Street | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Glasgow |
| Area | Lanarkshire |
| Coordinates | 55°51′12″N 4°15′35″W / 55.8533°N 4.2596°WCoordinates: 55°51′12″N 4°15′35″W / 55.8533°N 4.2596°W |
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| Original company | Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways |
| Platforms | Originally: 2 bay Later: 2 through and 4 bay |
| History | |
| 31 August 1840 | Opened as terminal station: south side Clyde coast services |
| 1879 | Rebuilt to provide two through platforms to Glasgow Central Station and 4 bay platforms |
| 1883 | G&SWR Clyde services diverted to St Enoch station |
| 1905 | Closed, platforms removed. Site of bay platforms used as carriage sidings for Central station |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Glasgow Bridge Street railway station, now disused, was the original Glasgow terminus of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway; jointly owned by the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway (GP&G), which later merged with the Caledonian Railway, and the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (GPK&A), which became part of the Glasgow and South Western Railway.
The station opened for traffic on the GPK&A in August 1840; and for traffic on the GP&G in March 1841. It was sited on the south side of the River Clyde, but was close to the centre of Glasgow.
The railway line between Paisley and Glasgow was built by the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, with Joseph Locke and John Errington as joint engineers. The station layout was designed by James Miller.
The line, together with Bridge Street station, was under the control of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Committee, which was jointly chaired by the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway and the Glasgow and South Western Railway.
The opening of the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway took away a lot of the river traffic from Glasgow; instead the steam boats terminated at Greenock and the railway was used between Greenock and Glasgow. The railway journey was 1 hour against 2.5 to 3.5 hours for river traffic. Similarly the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway provided a quicker journey to the coast than the river journey.
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