Cowcaddens subway station

Cowcaddens subway station is a station on the Glasgow Subway and serves the Cowcaddens, Garnethill and Dundasvale areas of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the north side of the city centre. Glasgow School of Art, Tenement House, the National Piping Centre, and to some extent Glasgow Caledonian University are local institutions and attractions served by the station.

Cowcaddens
Scottish Gaelic: Cowcaddens[1]
General information
Location	11 Dundasvale Court, Unit 1 Cowcaddens, Glasgow, G4 0SN[2] Scotland
Coordinates	55°52′06″N 4°15′33″W
Operated by	SPT
Platforms	2 (island platform)
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Parking	No[2]
Bicycle facilities	No[3]
Accessible	No[4]
History
Opened	14 December 1896
Rebuilt	16 April 1980; 44 years ago (1980-04-16)
Passengers
2018	0.451 million[5]
2019	0.427 million[6]
2020	0.170 million[6]
2021	0.195 million[6]
2022	0.373 million[7]
Services
Preceding station SPT Following station St George's Cross anticlockwise / inner circle Glasgow Subway Buchanan Street clockwise / outer circle
Location
Notes Passenger statistics provided are gate entries only. Information on gate exits for patronage is incomplete, and thus not included.[8]

History

It was opened in 1896 and was also marginally the closest Subway stop to the main line railway at Buchanan Street railway station which was closed in 1967. Like many of the original Subway stations, the surface entrance was part of the shop unit of a tenement building. After Cowcaddens was declared a Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) in the 1960s, mass demolition of tenement slums and other surrounding buildings took place, and by 1972 the station entrance was the only structure left standing in the area.

The station was rebuilt between 1977 and 1980, including the construction of a new surface-level ticket hall and the addition of escalators. Nevertheless, the station retained its original island platform configuration.

Nearby places:

• Garnethill
• Glasgow Kelvin College
• Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
• St. Aloysius’ College
• Chinatown

There are 500,000 boardings a year at this station.^[9]

Past passenger numbers

• 2011/12: 0.459 million annually^[10]

References

1. King, Jake (12 July 2020). "Glasgow's Gaelic Underground". Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
2. "Maps & stations". spt.co.uk. Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. Archived from the original on 15 January 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
3. "Bike parking facilities". spt.co.uk. Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. Archived from the original on 7 November 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
4. "Accessibility & mobility". spt.co.uk. Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. Archived from the original on 7 November 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
5. "Request for some usage statistics". Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 11 January 2019. Archived from the original on 1 March 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2019 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.
6. "Station usage statistics" (PDF). Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 20 July 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.
7. "Request for annual Subway station patronage 2022". 22 February 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
8. "Freedom of Information Request: Subway Station Usage Statistics" (PDF). Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 3 August 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.
9. "SPT Statistics & Trends 2005" (PDF). www.spt.co.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 March 2007.
10. "Freedom of Information request: Subway station patronage - 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012". Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 18 December 2012. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.