Merkland Street subway station
| Merkland Street | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Partick |
| Area | Glasgow |
| Coordinates | 55°52′12″N 4°18′35″W / 55.8701°N 4.3097°WCoordinates: 55°52′12″N 4°18′35″W / 55.8701°N 4.3097°W |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Glasgow District Subway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 14 December 1896 | Station opened & closed same day |
| 21 January 1897 | Station reopened |
| 21 May 1977 | Station closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Merkland Street station was on the subway in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the only station on the system that has closed permanently. The station opened in 1896. It was located 25 metres to the south-west of its replacement, Partick station and about 300 metres to the south of Partickhill railway station. It closed permanently in 1977 when the rest of the network was closed for modernisation. When the network reopened in 1980, it was replaced by a new station nearby named Partick, offering direct transfers to the rail station of the same name. There is evidence of Merkland Street station's existence due to a long straight and humped stretch on the underground with large diameter tunnels, although the platforms and station buildings no longer remain.
In 1940, during World War II, a German bomb hit the station and it was closed for many months.
Merkland Street is one of the stations mentioned in Cliff Hanley's song The Glasgow Underground.
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