Location

To the west of the station was a triangular set of junctions. Immediately to the west was Maryhill Central junction where the line to Kirklee diverged to the south and the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway

Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway

- Early days :The Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway was authorised in 1891, and opened in stages between 26 November 1894 and 1 October 1896.On 16 August 1909 the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway was absorbed into the Caledonian Railway...

 headed east to Bellshaugh Junction where the western side of the triangle (from Kirklee Junction at the southern point of the junctions) and the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway met before the line to Dawsholm diverged to the north. The station served the nearby Maryhill Barracks and it was from this station that tanks and soldiers departed for Buchanan Street station

Buchanan Street railway station

Buchanan Street Station was the least known of Glasgow's four main terminal railway stations, the other three being Central, Queen St and St Enoch...

 in order to be deployed at George Square in the 'Red Scare' of January 1919.

Closure

It was closed to passengers on 2 November 1959 on the Glasgow Central Railway

Glasgow Central Railway

The Glasgow Central Railway was a railway that ran from Maryhill in the north west of Glasgow through the West End and City Centre to Rutherglen and Newton to the south east of the city.- Early days :...

 route and on 5 October 1964 on the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway between Possil and Partick, with the lines in the area being closed at the beginning of October 1964.

Current site usage

The site of the station is now occupied by Maryhill Shopping Centre which was built in the early 1980s. A space was left in the basement of the shopping centre to allow the line to be re-opened in future however, this was still considered an option in the mid 1990s with the building of a large bingo hall on the cutting east of site still left a channel for the original line to be re-opened below ground. However this prospect was put to rest in 1999 with the sale of land for housing along many parts of the track in the Kirklee and Cleveden sections of the track, also the demolition of many of the bridges around the same area for safety reasons.

Maryhill Shopping Centre was demolished in early 2010 and replaced by a new Tesco supermarket. The void beneath the supermarket for the railway station has again been retained to allow the future possibility of reopening the railway line.

Railway routes

1923 map of Maryhill