Partick railway station
Partick 
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| Scottish Gaelic: Partaig | |
The new façade of Partick station after a lengthy renovation
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| Location | |
| Place | Partick |
| Local authority | City of Glasgow |
| Coordinates | 55°52′11″N 4°18′33″W / 55.8698°N 4.3092°WCoordinates: 55°52′11″N 4°18′33″W / 55.8698°N 4.3092°W |
| Grid reference | NS555664 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | PTK |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| 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 |
 2.494 million |
| 2012/13 |
2.591 million |
| 2013/14 |
2.674 million |
| 2014/15 |
2.788 million |
| 2015/16 |
2.858 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | SPT |
| History | |
| Original company | British Railways |
| 17 December 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 Partick from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Partick
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Platform for Outer Circle service at the subway station
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Partick, Glasgow Scotland |
| Operated by | SPT |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | underground |
| Other information | |
| Fare zone | G |
| History | |
| Opened | 16 April 1980 |
| Previous names | Merkland Street |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers | 1.022 million annually enter/exit |
Partick station is an interchange station in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland. Along with an adjacent bus station, it forms one of the main transport hubs in Glasgow. The station is served by Glasgow Subway and National Rail services and was one of the first to receive bilingual English and Gaelic signs, because there is a significant Gaelic-speaking population in the Partick area.
The first station in the area was the North British Railway's Partickhill, opened in 1887 slightly to the north of the existing site on the opposite side of the Dumbarton Road. Soon after, the Glasgow Subway opened and its Merkland Street station, slightly to the south of the existing station site, opened in December 1896. Neither was independently known as "Partick station" as there were two other railway stations in Partick between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries: Partick Central (later renamed Kelvin Hall station) to the east with Partick West and Crow Road to the west.
The Beeching Axe of the 1960s closed Partick West and Partick Central, both on the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway link to the Stobcross Railway and Glasgow Central Railway, leaving just the two stations in Partick, with Partickhill station - which escaped closure owing to being on the newly electrified (1960) North Clyde line from Queen Street Low Level, served by the 'Blue Trains', with a major pre-electrification refurbishment in 1958. It stood a few hundred yards north of Merkland Street. The amalgamation of the two stations to a single site came in 1979, as a major refurbishment of the Glasgow Subway coincided with the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive's decision to reopen part of the Glasgow Central Railway, which had been axed by Beeching, as the Argyle Line and connecting it to the North Clyde system just east of Partick. Both stations were closed (Merkland Street had been since the Subway works began in May 1977, whilst Partickhill remained in service for several months after the Argyle Line opened, until replaced by the current Partick station) and replaced by British Rail with a new combined Partick station in the middle. The platforms at Partickhill are still visible from the North Clyde/Argyle Line, although access to Dumbarton Road is now blocked. The Merkland Street station buildings are no longer visible.
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