St Enoch Station - Glasgow

[Buzby]

This was a terminus station on the north bank of the River Clyde originally handling routes to Ayrshire (before being relocated to Central). However looking at the relevant track layouts, it appears that the low numbered platforms could access the Glasgow Union Railway heading north-east. Can anyone suggest where passenger services ran using this Line? Or was it simply a freight feeder?

I had assumed a similar service as is currently provided by Queen Street (Lower) prior to electrification but I’ve drawn a blank - can anyone recall or point in the direction of a useful resource?

TIA

 

[Railsigns]

Wikipedia notes that the Glasgow & South Western Railway ran local services from St. Enoch to Springburn.

 

[Falcon1200]

If you can get hold of a copy, the book 'Glasgow Stations' (Colin Johnston and John R Hume, David & Charles 1979) has a chapter on St Enoch. St Enoch was a Glasgow & South Western Railway (G&SWR) station whereas the lines accessed by the City Union line to the north were the North British Railway (NBR). If I understand it correctly, passenger services from the G&SWR towards the NBR via City Union ceased as early as 1902, and (some at least) of these had consisted of portions detached and attached at, for example, Bellgrove or Clyde Junction, and did not therefore use St Enoch!

 

[Buzby]

I’ll try the Mitchell for the book! I saw the Wiki entry but thought it unlikely as it was meandering (via Blochairn) and rather short - unless the quantity of the workforce at the various engineering works made it worthwhile? It just seemed strange for such a useful link to be ignored… even after nationalisatio.

 

[30907]

Wikipedia notes that the Glasgow & South Western Railway ran local services from St. Enoch to Springburn.

Confirmed by the 1896 Bradshaw on timetableworld.com (page 588 - it isn’t indexed). Half hourly from 7.45am ex St Enoch, plus a couple of workmens' trains, and hourly from Bellahouston-St Enoch-Bridgeton Cross.
Neither appears in 1908, which makes me suspect tramway competition killed it.

 

[Buzby]

Confirmed by the 1896 Bradshaw on timetableworld.com

TVM!

 

[Taunton]

In more recent times it was extensively used to back out trains and reverse them, and their steam locomotives, round the triangle before coming back in.

 

[Buzby]

In more recent times it was extensively used to back out trains and reverse them, and their steam locomotives, round the triangle before coming back in.

It’s this manoeuvre I recall when I was there - it was just all the trains I saw doing this would be heading for Ayrshire (I assumed they arrived from there too), so for years I thought the line to the left never went anywhere and was just a stub - this was long after the Springburn service mentioned above had ceased.

 

[Albaman]

In more recent times it was extensively used to back out trains and reverse them, and their steam locomotives, round the triangle before coming back in.

I didn't spend a lot of time at St Enoch's and the only train I remember seeing which used the connection to the Glasgow Union Railway was the ECS from the 0610 from Annan to St Enoch's. It arrived at platform 2 and I guess the ECS then went to Bellahouston carriage sidings ( and always seemed to be hauled by 73055 , though I'm sure other locos were involved ). My observations were from late 1963 to closure but my visits to St. Enoch's were usually fairly brief so I am unable to say how often the connection was used.

 

[Bevan Price]

If you zoom into the central Glasgow area, you can see all the connections on these maps.
(See Glasgow enlargement at bottom left-hand corner.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/142842320 (1898 version)

https://maps.nls.uk/view/142842287 (1920 version)