I remember a topic on KDS which documented the location we were founded, huge amounts of research was conducted on deciding which hall within the church was the location of that famous meeting.
I became fascinated since then about such locations, and found one I had never heard of a few days ago (less important but interesting). It was a train station actually named after the stadium, located just outside the premises.
Any old timers remember using the station called "Parkhead Stadium Station"? I did a little bit of work highlighted the exact location of the old station via helpful posters on Hidden Glasgow.
An interesting part of this is that it appears the station was "filled in" with turf as it was below ground level like Dalmarnock, were as now the area is ground level (feel free to correct me here). The tunnel it went under runs behind the Turnstiles Bar and into a dead end, I would love to go a wander down that tunnel sometime. If you look at my present day map, you can see where this tunnel ran once upon a time. I find it interesting that once upon a time thousands of Celtic fans boarded and alighted at a station which has since been filled in with land and long forgotten about.
Anyone have any memories of this lower level station or any other interesting long forgotten buildings?
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Great research. well done.
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Nice one mate, had never heard of this before.
Lion or Buster would be your best bet, they were probably around when they applied for planning permission.Drakhan likes this. -
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Parkhead Stadium was a railway station in the east end of Glasgow. It was opened by the Caledonian Railway as Parkhead on 1 February 1897.[1]
In recognition of its proximity to the Celtic Park football stadium, it was known as Parkhead (for Celtic Park) by 1904;[2] and it was also referred to in some timetables as Parkhead for Celtic Park.[1]
The station was renamed Parkhead Stadium by British Railways on 3 March 1952.[1] The nearby ex-North British Railway's Coatbridge Branch station, "Parkhead", was renamed "Parkhead North" on 30 June 1952.[1]
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That's what I'm thinking as well.
Maybe they didn't feel it was used enough to merit a line, given that we were playing at home less than half the weekends of the year. Also, we weren't particularly overly successful around the 50's/early 60's so attendances may have been quite low and led to the decision.
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I'd imagine they were getting rid of the entire railway line rather than just that station, very close to the Dalmarnock side of the line as well as the line that runs through Duke Street area.
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I think around that period a lot of stations and lines were altered or removed completely anyway because of an increase in people using buses or cars.
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That was around the time Beeching closed thousands of stations across britain
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Would be quite handy for a lot of people if it was still open. Imagine being able to get off the train right next to Celtic Park at that side of the stadium.
Looks as though you could have got the train from Tollcross or Rutherglen to right outside Celtic Park, probably handier than Dalmarnock for some people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Central_Railway
Never knew Tollcross had a station either.
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Certainly seems like out of the three (Dalmarnock/Parkhead/Belgrove) that Parkhead would be the more popular in the present, what with Celtic Park and The Forge.FinnMcCool1967 likes this. -
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Anyone know of the Bank Restaurant on Queen St that Willie Maley used to own/hold court at with the journalists of his day, long before King Kenny did the same in the Gallowgate?
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The tunnel is just behind the turnstiles pub
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That's * ageism...............besides the tram was more handy for meSean Daleer likes this. -
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Here's a link about it.
http://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/bankqueen.htmlTaz likes this. -
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You'd think they have came up with a better colour for that ceiling!Drakhan likes this. -
Good place for storing dead bodies if you where into that sort of thing:confused:Twisty likes this.
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