Shields Road subway station

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Shields Road
Shields Road Underground showing the layout of the station.
Location
Place Kingston/Pollokshields
Local authority City of Glasgow
Operations
Managed by SPT
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
Annual entry/exit 0.460 million †
Subway platforms in use 2
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
List of Strathclyde stations:
Glasgow Subway
National Rail - UK railway stations

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† Data from Strathclyde Partnership for Transport [1]

Shields Road subway station is a station of Glasgow Subway, serving the Kingston and Pollokshields areas of Glasgow, Scotland. Nearby is Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Scotland Street School Museum. This was one of four (now three [1]) stations which has Park and Ride facilities.

The station has been left in an industrial area by post-war reconstruction and is isolated from surrounding areas by the M8 motorway and approach roads for the Kingston Bridge. There were 460,000 passengers in the 12 months to 31 March 2005. [2] These trips were largely generated by the adjacent 'Park & Ride' car park. The carpark was recently rebuilt with over 800 spaces in a project that ended in September 2006.

The east end of the car park is closer to the entrance of West Street subway station.

Preceding station Glasgow Subway Following station
West Street   Glasgow Subway   Kinning Park


[edit] Reference

  1. ^ Subway car park axed to build M74 missing link. Retrieved on 2008-02-17.
  2. ^ Statistics & trends 2005