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Shields Road subway station

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Operated by
  
SPT

Fare zone
  
G

Structure type
  
underground

Platforms in use
  
2

Shields Road subway station

Location
  
Pollokshields, Glasgow Scotland

Passengers
  
0.451 million annually enter/exit

Address
  
360 Scotland St, Glasgow G5 8QF, UK

Similar
  
Bridge Street subway st, Kelvinbridge subway station, West Street subway station, Kinning Park subway st, St Enoch subway station

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

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. 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.

References

Shields Road subway station Wikipedia