Alexandra Parade railway station

Alexandra Parade railway station is a railway station in Glasgow, Scotland. The station is 1+3⁄4 miles (2.8 km) east of Glasgow Queen Street on the Springburn branch of the North Clyde Line. The station is managed by ScotRail.

Alexandra Parade Scottish Gaelic: Pairèad Alexandra[1]
General information
Location	Glasgow Cross, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55.8637°N 4.2107°W / 55.8637; -4.2107
Grid reference	NS617655
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AXP
Key dates
1 July 1881	Opened as Alexandra Park[2]
1 January 1917	Station closed[2]
2 June 1919	Station reopened[2]
9 July 1923	Station renamed Alexandra Parade[2]
Passengers
2018/19	0.419 million
2019/20	0.393 million
2020/21	59,874
2021/22	0.200 million
2022/23	0.264 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

v t e Railways in the Parkhead area
Legend
City of Glasgow Union Railway The Switchback (CR) (CoGUR) Alexandra Parade Kennyhill Goods (SB CR) (CoGUR) Haghill Goods (CoGUR) Duke Street Haghill Junction (CB NBR) Camlachie Goods Coatbridge Branch (NBR)   Parkhead North (CB NBR)   Coatbridge Branch (NBR) Glasgow Central Railway Parkhead Forge Siding (SB CR) (GCR) Bridgeton Parkhead Forge Junction London Road Goods (SB CR) London Road Junction (GCR) Dalmarnock Dalmarnock (SB CR) Strathclyde Junction (GCR) Bridgeton Goods Parkhead Stadium (GCR) River Clyde Glasgow Central Railway Glasgow Central Railway
Railways
CB NBR Coatbridge Branch (NBR) CoGUR City of Glasgow Union Railway (Joint G&SWR and NBR) GCR Glasgow Central Railway (CR) SB CR The Switchback (CR)

It was built as part of the City of Glasgow Union Railway which provided a link across the Clyde (between the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway at Shields Junction and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at Sighthill Junction).

Services

• 2tph to Dumbarton Central via Glasgow Queen St Low Level, Yoker and Dalmuir
• 2tph to Springburn

On Sundays, an hourly Partick to Springburn service each way operates between 10am and 6pm.^[3]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Barnhill		ScotRail North Clyde Line		Duke Street
	Historical railways
Garngad Line open; Station closed		City of Glasgow Union Railway G&SWR and NBR		Duke Street Line and Station open

References

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt (1995)
3. Table 226 National Rail timetable, December 2018

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• 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.
• 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.

External links

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