Kirklee Gate, Kirklee Station, Ford Road

Exit the Gardens through Kirklee Gate and turn right onto Ford Rd towards the Arboretum. On your left was the site of Kirklee Station, designed by architect J. J. Burnet and built in c1894 for the Glasgow Central Railway.

It was a two platform through station, with neat single storey red sandstone buildings. Though the down platform building was not particular1y unusual, the up platform building was supported at the rear on massive rustic walls, with recessed arches and had a little semioctagonal porch at the east end. Kirklee Station closed on 1st May 1939, and the line closed down in October 1964.The station was demolished in 1970.