Did you know there was once another Subway station?
There are only a few subtle hints of its existence today, but Glasgow’s Subway once had a fifteenth station in operation.
Merkland Street proved very popular in its heyday, especially during the height of Glasgow’s shipbuilding era as workers would use it to go from one side of the Clyde to the other. Thankfully no one was hurt, but the damage meant the closure of part of the system until January 1941 when it was repaired.Its basic infrastructure was virtually unchanged from when it opened almost 100 years earlier, and footfall was declining due to the demolition of many tenements south of the river, as well as the closure of many of the dockyards.
Tunnels were repaired and all 15 stations were to be rebuilt and enlarged. The original timber platforms at Merkland Street, as well as Govan Cross and Copland Road – which is now known as Ibrox - had to be rebuilt as concrete, but Merkland Street was not part of the new grand plan.The Subway was to be linked to the national rail network's newly reopened Argyle Line at Partick via an interchange station, so Merkland Street closed and Partick opened nearby.
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