Anniesland railway station

Anniesland
Looking north with the Maryhill Line terminal platform on the right.
Location
Place	Anniesland
Local authority	City of Glasgow
Coordinates	55°53′20″N 4°19′19″W / 55.889°N 4.322°W / 55.889; -4.322Coordinates: 55°53′20″N 4°19′19″W / 55.889°N 4.322°W / 55.889; -4.322
Operations
Station code	ANL
Managed by	First ScotRail
Platforms in use	3
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	0.526 million
2004/05 *	0.662 million
2005/06 *	0.775 million
2006/07 *	0.809 million
2007/08 *	0.849 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Stobcross Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
20 October 1874	Station opened as Great Western Road
9 January 1931	Station renamed Anniesland
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Anniesland from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
UK Railways Portal

Anniesland railway station is a railway station that serves the Anniesland suburb of Glasgow, Scotland.

The station is served by First ScotRail as part of the SPT network.

It is located on the Argyle Line 6 km (3¾ miles) west of Glasgow Central (Low Level), on the North Clyde Line 7 km (4¼ miles) west of Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level), and is the terminus of the Maryhill Line 10 km (6¼ miles) away from Glasgow Queen Street (High Level).

History

Opened by the North British Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980's, the station was served by ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Services

There is a regular service daily from Anniesland to Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level) on the North Clyde Line and to Glasgow Central (Low Level) on the Argyle Line.

Destinations that are accessible from Anniesland are Balloch, Milngavie and Dalmuir railway station westbound and Motherwell, Larkhall and Lanark on the Argyle Line and Airdrie and High Street (Glasgow) on the North Clyde Line eastbound.

There is a half-hourly service from Anniesland on the Maryhill Line to Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) via Maryhill Monday to Saturdays. An hourly service runs between 1000 hours and 1800 hours on the four Sundays prior to Christmas to provide extra trains for Christmas shoppers.

Sources

• 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 1-8526-0508-1. 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Station on navigable O.S. map
• RAILSCOT on Glasgow City and District Railway
• RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway
• RAILSCOT on Stobcross Railway
• RAILSCOT on Whiteinch Railway

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