Argyle Street railway station
Argyle Street 
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Argyle Street railway station exterior, on Argyle Street
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| Location | |
| Place | Glasgow |
| Local authority | Glasgow |
| Coordinates | 55°51′25″N 4°15′04″W / 55.857°N 4.251°WCoordinates: 55°51′25″N 4°15′04″W / 55.857°N 4.251°W |
| Grid reference | NS592649 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | AGS |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Owned by | Network Rail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 1.196 million |
| 2012/13 |
1.337 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.370 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.438 million |
| 2015/16 |
 1.383 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | SPT |
| History | |
| Original company | British Rail |
| 5 November 1979 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Argyle Street from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Argyle Street railway station is a station in the City Centre of Glasgow, Scotland, on the Argyle Line, which connects the North Clyde lines at Partick with Rutherglen in the south-east of the city. The station is located below the thoroughfare whose name it bears. It has a narrow and often crowded island platform. It serves the Argyle Street shopping precinct as well as the St Enoch Centre. Along with Dalmarnock and Anderston, no services call at this station on a Sunday before 10am or after 6pm
The Glasgow Central Railway was formed in 1888 to link the Clydesdale Junction Railway and Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway with the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway. By the time it was opened between 1894 and 1897, the GCR had been taken over by the Caledonian Railway. Although there were three stations under Argyle Street - Anderston, Glasgow Central and Glasgow Cross, there was no station on the site of the current station.
The line closed in 1964, but it was reopened by British Rail in 1979 and operated by the Scottish Region of British Railways by arrangement with the Greater Glasgow PTE. Although the Central Low Level station was reopened, Glasgow Cross was not reopened; instead the new Argyle Street station was constructed, midway between Glasgow Cross and Glasgow Central.
When the 1979 reopening took place, a simple island platform was required, but footings of adjacent buildings and other physical constraints limited the available tunnel width for the new station. Moreover, the roadway above had not yet been pedestrianised, and street access and station building construction was not acceptable within the road limits. Accordingly, station building premises were constructed within the ordinary building line on the south side of the street; access to the platforms is via Argyle Street and Osborne Street into the ticket hall, then down an escalator into the station lower level, below track level. A passageway then leads under the westbound track and a second escalator leads up to the island platform which is located directly under Argyle street.
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