Shields Road subway station

Shields Road subway station is a station of Glasgow Subway, serving the Pollokshields and Kingston areas of Glasgow, Scotland. Nearby is Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Scotland Street School Museum. This was one of four (now three^[8]) stations which has Park and Ride facilities.

Shields Road
Scottish Gaelic: Rathad Shields[1]
General information
Location	30 Cornwall Street Kingston, Glasgow, G41 1AH[2] Scotland
Coordinates	55°51′01″N 4°16′28″W
Operated by	SPT
Platforms	2 (island platform)
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Parking	Yes; 839 parking spaces[2]
Bicycle facilities	Yes (bike hire and parking)
Accessible	No[3]
History
Opened	14 December 1896
Rebuilt	16 April 1980; 44 years ago (1980-04-16)
Passengers
2018	0.496 million[4]
2019	0.511 million[5]
2020	0.172 million[5]
2021	0.195 million[5]
2022	0.383 million[6]
Services
Preceding station SPT Following station West Street anticlockwise / inner circle Glasgow Subway Kinning Park clockwise / outer circle
Location
Notes Passenger statistics provided are gate entries only. Information on gate exits for patronage is incomplete, and thus not included.[7]

The station has been left in an industrial area by post-war reconstruction and is isolated from surrounding areas by the M8 motorway and approach roads for the Kingston Bridge. There were 460,000 passengers in the 12 months to 31 March 2005.^[9] These trips were largely generated by the adjacent 'Park & Ride' car park. The car park was rebuilt with over 800 spaces in a project that ended in September 2006.

The east end of the car park is closer to the entrance of West Street subway station.

The station is actually on Scotland Street, not Shields Road. There has been some consideration of changing its name.

Shields Road is one of the stations mentioned in Cliff Hanley's song The Glasgow Underground.^[10]

Past passenger numbers

• 2004/05: 0.460 million annually
• 2011/12: 0.457 million annually^[11]

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. "Accessibility & mobility". spt.co.uk. Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. Archived from the original on 7 November 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
4. "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.
5. "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.
6. "Request for annual Subway station patronage 2022". 22 February 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.
7. "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.
8. "Subway car park axed to build M74 missing link". Archived from the original on 19 February 2009. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
9. Statistics & trends 2005 Archived 28 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
10. "YouTube - The Glasgow Underground". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
11. "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.