Maxwell Park Station, Glasgow

Built 1894 for Caledonian Railway, on northern part of

Cathcart circle. Station, free-standing on an island

platform one of a series of similar buildings of which

only few now survive (another, at Queen's Park, is a

single storey version). Tall deep-eaved 2-storey

centre, linked to roadway either side by steel

pedestrian bridge (railway is in a cutting at this

point); built mainly of timber, extensively-glazed,

slate-roofed, slated main roof of single storey wings

carried down to form deep and continuous (glazed)

canopy; steps in open ends; big brackets support roofs;

tall red ashlar stacks. Bridge abutments red rock-faced

ashlar.