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Kelvingrove Tunnel [Kelvingrove Park Station]

Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, City of Glasgow (Lanarkshire).

Approximate location of proposed but never completed station on the Glasgow Central Railway. The site for the station was excavated but at the last minute it was decided the station was not wanted.

'Beyond Kelvingrove Street, the line passed under West End Park, the gradient easing from 1:100 to 1:260. It had originally been intended to have a station here and, to that end, hoardings were put up, behind which a large box was excavated to accommodate it - 100 yards long, 44 feet wide and 24 feet high. This would have been spanned by steel girders supported by concrete sidewalls, dressed in white glazed brick. But Glasgow Corporation rejected the idea with the station already well advanced, concerns being raised about the impact of a working class influx on the delicate middle classes thereabouts. Had this decision been made sooner, conventional - and much cheaper - tunnelling methods would have been adopted. As it was, a brick arch was instead installed, the box backfilled and the parkland restored to its previous state.' [K-Burn]

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: The station excavation would have been 91.5 m long by 13.5 m wide and 7.3 m high supposedly spanned by steel girders but if the station had gone ahead, this could have been either open to the sky or covered by a glass canopy.

Hydrographic Feeds: None

Hydrographic Resurgences: None