Kelvinhall subway station

Kelvinhall (Scottish Gaelic: Taigh Cheilbhinn)^[7], known as Partick Cross until 1977, is an underground station on the Glasgow Subway, renamed after the nearby Kelvin Hall. It is located in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland, near to many of the city's best known tourist destinations including:

• The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
• Kelvingrove Park
• The University of Glasgow

Location7 Dalcross Path
Partick, Glasgow, G11 5RA^[1]
Scotland

Coordinates55°52′16″N 4°18′02″W

OperatorSPT

Transit authority

SPT

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Kelvinhall Taigh Cheilbhinn
General information
Location	7 Dalcross Path Partick, Glasgow, G11 5RA[1] Scotland
Coordinates	55°52′16″N 4°18′02″W
Operator	SPT
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2 (island platform)
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Parking	No[1]
Cycle facilities	No[1]
Accessible	No[2]
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	14 December 1896
Rebuilt	16 April 1980; 46 years ago (1980-04-16)
Former names	Partick Cross (1896–1977)
Passengers
2018	0.686 million[3]
2019	0.708 million[4]
2020	0.232 million[4]
2021	0.321 million[4]
2022	0.641 million[5]
Services
Preceding station SPT Following station Partick anticlockwise / inner circle Glasgow Subway Hillhead clockwise / outer circle
Location
Notes Passenger statistics provided are gate entries only. Information on gate exits for patronage is incomplete, and thus not included.[6]

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There was previously a Kelvin Hall railway station, but it was unattached to the subway station, which was at any rate still known as Partick Cross at the time of that station's closure in 1964 as part of the Beeching axe.

The station entrance is located off Dumbarton Road at the end of a narrow arcade of shops below flats. The station retains its original island platform layout and has no escalators. The renovation work at Kelvinhall station during the 1977–1980 modernisation of the Subway was not as extensive as most of the other stations on the network: other than Cessnock, it is the only station to retain its original entrance and surface buildings, which would be virtually invisible from the street without the signage.

Kelvinhall (under its former name of Partick Cross) is one of the stations mentioned in Cliff Hanley's song The Glasgow Underground.^[8]

The Glasgow Subway is operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT).