Botanic Gardens Station (Disused)

The Botanic Gardens Station, which had been located on Great Western Road was built in c1894 for the Glasgow Central Railway and designed by the Scottish architect, James Miller (1860-1947) the staff architect for the Caledonian Railway Company. An unusual and attractive station, it had the platforms and waiting rooms underground as the railway ran mostly underground from Stobcross Junction (now the Exhibition Centre) up the valley of the River Kelvin to Maryhill.

The booking office was in a red brick building with a steeply pitched roof having two towers with galleries, sunnounted by gilded onion domes. The centre portion of the frontage was a veranda and there were pavilions at either end. Botanic Gardens Station was the first to be closed on 6th February 1939. The entire line was finally closed down on the 5th October 1964 after just 68 years.

The booking office remained on Great Westem Road long after the station was closed and briefly became a nightclub called Sergeant Peppers from 1967 until it was destroyed by fire in 1970.

Here is a recent video of the interior of the station.