St George's Cross subway station

St George's Cross subway station is a Glasgow Subway station in Glasgow, Scotland which serves the areas of Woodside and Woodlands of the city. It is located at St George's Cross, previously an important road junction but realigned due to the construction of the M8 motorway and less heavily used by traffic since then. Today the station serves mainly the eastern extremity of Great Western Road and the northern reaches of the neighbouring Charing Cross district.

St. George's Cross
Scottish Gaelic: Crois an Naoimh Seòras[1]
General information
Location	51 Great Western Road Woodside, Glasgow, G4 9AH[2] Scotland
Coordinates	55°52′19″N 4°16′11″W
Operated by	SPT
Platforms	2 (island platform)
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Parking	No[2]
Bicycle facilities	Yes (bike hire)[3]
Accessible	No[4]
History
Opened	14 December 1896
Rebuilt	16 April 1980; 44 years ago (1980-04-16)
Passengers
2018	0.542 million[5]
2019	0.516 million[6]
2020	0.202 million[6]
2021	0.267 million[6]
2022	0.472 million[7]
Services
Preceding station SPT Following station Kelvinbridge anticlockwise / inner circle Glasgow Subway Cowcaddens 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]

The station was opened in 1896 and retains its original island platform configuration. The surface buildings were demolished and rebuilt in 1971 as part of the construction of the Glasgow Inner Ring Road – making this the only station on the system to be substantially rebuilt prior to the 1977–80 modernisation. The original aesthetic of the new station – characterised by concrete aggregate cladding was therefore short-lived – during the modernisation project this was replaced with the new corporate style of the new Subway with dark brown brick and orange tiling, which has survived to the present day.

This station recorded 580,000 boardings in the twelve months ending on 31 March 2005.^[9]

St George's Cross is one of the stations mentioned in Cliff Hanley's song "The Glasgow Underground".^[10]

Past passenger numbers

• 2011/12: 0.544 million annually^[11]

Notes and 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. "statistics & trends" (PDF). Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 March 2007.
10. "YouTube – The Glasgow Underground". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
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.