Cathcart District Railway

This line is open. The line is now known as the "Cathcart Circle". There is an electric passenger train service provided around the circle, from Glasgow Central and back to it.

Survey To be entered
Engineers To be entered
Act 7/9/1880
Contractors To be entered
Opened 1/3/1886
Closed No
Clickable map of the Cathcart District Railway

  303 at Queens Park heading south. 
303 at Queens Park heading south.

Local area 

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This line is in the south of Glasgow. It runs through a residential area consisting mostly of tenement housing.

Chronology 

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Description of route 

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From Pollokshields to Cathcart, later extended by another route back to Pollokshields.

Muirhouse Junction
(Glasgow Central Station Lines)(No access to Barrhead line from Pollokshields East)
Pollokshields East

Queens Park  
   
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303 at Queens Park heading south. 
303 at Queens Park heading south.
Queens Park station building.
Queens Park station building.

 

This is an island platform station. The station was re-glazed in the late 1980s.

Crosshill 
Mount Florida 
Cathcart North Junction?
(Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway)
Cathcart (Old) 
Cathcart East Junction 
(Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway)
Cathcart 
Cathcart West Junction 
(Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway)
Langside and Newlands 
Pollokshaws East 
Shawlands 
Maxwell Park

Pollokshields West  
   
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Inner circle train entering Pollockshields West.
Newton train entering Pollockshields West.

This is an island platform station.

Muirhouse Junction 
(Glasgow Central Station Lines)
(Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway)


Page created on 20/01/1998
Page last edited on 11/06/2003
E-mails to: Ewan Crawford