Glenfield railway station (Scotland)

Glenfield was a railway station to the south west of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Glenfield
Base of bridge crossing the station platform 2007
General information
Location	Paisley, Renfrewshire Scotland
Coordinates	55°49′08″N 4°26′02″W / 55.819°N 4.434°W / 55.819; -4.434
Grid reference	NS475611
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Paisley and Barrhead District Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Key dates
1897	Built
1897	Never opened for passengers

History

 

Stephenson Locomotive Society's tour of the Paisley district on 1 September 1951

The station was originally part of the Paisley and Barrhead District Railway. The line was opened in 1897 and used for freight until the 1960s, but none of its stations - including this one - opened for passenger travel. It was on the west side of the present-day Glenburn Road, opposite Knockside Avenue.^[1] It is easy to find the long concrete platform by walking into the trees at the above location.^[2] Railway photographer G.H. Robin took three pictures there,^[3] two of which during the only time passengers disembarked at Glenfield on an excursion for railway enthusiasts in September 1951.^[4][5] The station was later rented out as a private house while goods trains were still using the line.^[6] The photograph shows the excursion train and the tenant's vegetable garden.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Barrhead (New) Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway Paisley and Barrhead District Railway		Stanely Line and station closed

References

Notes

1. . Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
2. . Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
3. . Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
4. . Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
5. . Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
6. Gammell (1999)

• The GH Robin photographs are the copyright of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• Gammell, C.J. (1999). Scottish Branch Lines. Shepperton: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 0-8609-3540-X. OCLC 44398793.

• 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.
• Location of Glenfield station on navigable OS map