Old travel Blog photograph of a steam locomotive on the Central Railway in Glasgow, Scotland. The first sod for the Central Railway was cut on 11 June 1890 by Master J.B. Montgomerie Fleming, son of J.B. Fleming of Kelvinside. The section from Maryhill to Stobcross opened to mineral traffic, to Queens Dock, on 26 November 1894. The Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire opened from Maryhill to Balornock Junction on the same day.)[5] Passenger trains started to run from Rutherglen to Glasgow Cross on 1 November 1895, and the entire line opened to all traffic on 10 August 1896. 130 trains passed through the line each way. Central Station had two island platforms, and four through tracks. The Tollcross section opened throughout on 1 Feb 1897. From the outset, the Central Railway was found to be unattractive for passengers; the smoky atmosphere, and the dirty condition of the station and the trains were constantly commented upon. Street tramcars by contrast were frequent, clean, and had stops close to city destinations that the railway could not always match. The railways were nationalised in 1948, and the duplication of lines for passengers and goods was a disadvantage, now that competition was irrelevant. Some individual stations had already been closed. The line was closed to passengers between Maryhill and Stobcross on 2 November 1959, although goods and mineral traffic continued from the Possil line via Maryhill to the Queen's Dock until 14 August 1960; after that date a service to Kelvinbridge continued until 6 July 1964.
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