Location

The station occupies the west side of a paved forecourt, Merkland Court, at the south end of Merkland Street, which leads south from Dumbarton Road. The forecourt is bounded to the south by Beith Street (east/west), to the east by the Partick Bus Station, Morrisons car park and the west wall of the shops.

Although the tarmac surface of Merkland Street veers left, towards the Partick Bus Station , Merkland Street continues south into the forecourt.

The area between the shops and the station, leading south towards Beith Street is paved with flower beds. The pavement opposite the station exit extends east between the Morrisons car park and the Bus Station, giving access to the three bus stops, see the Local Buses section below for details.

Vine Street (north/south) is east of the Bus Station and car park. This continues (south) along the east side of the Morrisons building.

Entrances and Exits

There are two entrances/exits to this station, each offering level access into the concourse.

• The main entrance leads west from the forecourt, inline with the pavement of the Bus Station. You go through two sets of automatic doors. There's a row of bollards outside this entrance.
• The south entrance leads north from the forecourt, a few metres east of the west wall. Note that there's a fire exit between the west wall and this entrance to the station. Note also that there's a post with a sign advertising SPT and First Scotrail a few metres outside the exit, at about 11 o'clock as you leave the station.

Local Road Crossings

Merkland Street

At Dumbarton Road

There is tactile paving, but no pedestrian controlled crossing of Merkland Street on Dumbarton Road. Traffic flows one way, going north.

Merkland Court

Tactile paving leads northeast from outside the station entrance towards a zebra crossing towards the taxi rank. Note, there's no drop kerb or tactile paving at the northeasst end of this crossing, which is on the corner, outside Subway.

Dumbarton Road

There's a crossing with tactile paving and sounder a few metres west of Merkland Street, near the rail bridge.

Through the Bus Station

There are no pedestrian crossings marked at the exit from the car park, nor the entrance from Vine Street.

Vine Street

We noted four uncontrolled crossings:

• From the island to the east of the Bus Station. This leads to a furniture shop and power substation. The pavement is obstructed to the south of this.
• Just south of the entrance to the car park. This leads to the car park OF a school, east of Vine Street. There's a dropped kerb but no tactile paving at either end of this crossing.
• About 30 metres south of the corner, with tactile paving at each end. This leads to a short path towards Anderson Street. This is the best crossing towards the Glasgow Centre for Sensory Impaired People in Gullane Street.
• Near the south end of the Morrisons building, this leads to a path opposite Gullane Street, but this is not as useful or easy to find as the one mentioned above.

Beith Street

There's a crossing a few metres west of the rail viaduct. This is a single-stage crossing with tactile paving. There's a post with push button and rotating cone to each side of you as you cross in either direction. Note that the left-hand post is much shorter than the right.

Local Buses

There are three bus stops, numbered 1, 2 and 3, on the left-hand side of the pavement as you move away from the station entrance. Each stop has the post with the information board to the east of the shelter. These serve:

Bus Stop 1

• 7, to East Fulton
• 89, Govan Circular
• 189, to Govan
• 747, to Glasgow Airport

Bus Stop 2

• 23, to Blairdardie
• 42, to Drumchappel, Monymusk Place
• 400, to Drumchappel, Drumchappel Road

Bus Stop 3

• 9, to Drumchappel, Garscadden Road
• 62/N62, to Faifley, Faifley Road

Local Features

The Centre for Sensory Impaired People

We've published our online guide to the Centre for Sensory Impaired People, 17 Gullane Street.

Merkland Street

West Side of Merkland Street, Going North from the Station Entrance

The tarmac surface of Merkland Strreet starts opposite the gift shop and a strip of tactile paving runs from here towards the station entrance, but currently stops short of this. This indicates a zebra crossing for which there is no dropped kerb or tactile paving on the east side of Merkland Street.

East Side of Merkland Street, Going North from the Taxi Rank

The Car Park and Bus Station

This space is divided into two sections by a strip of pavement running east from the forecourt, opposite the main entrance to the station. The south section is the Morisons car park, whilst the north serves the Bus Station (on the south side) and a taxi rank (on the north). This space is bounded on the east side by Vine Street which continues along the east side of the Morrisons building.

The Taxi Rank

You can reach this via the zebra crossing from the station entrance, turn right (east) on reaching the pavement, we understand the pick-up point is towards the east end of this pavement, just before Vine Street.

The Bus Station

There are three bus stops, numbered 1, 2 and 3, on the left-hand (north) side of the pavement as you go away from the station entrance. Note that there are trees along the south side of this pavement. From the West:

The entrance to the car park is between the south side of the island and the pavement outside Morrisons.

South Side of Car Park, Going East

The pavement outside the shops is under a canopy supported by a row of pillars. Going east from the forecourt, we have:

West Side of Merkland Court, Going South

There are two pillars, supporting a canopy outside the station entrance.

North Side, Going West

East Side of Merkland Court, Going South

South Side of Merkland Court

Within Merkland Court

This is a paved area with a gravel strip beside the station wall and a flower bed beside the fence beyond the shops. A raised flower bed juts out into this space towards the far (south) side, from the station wall. This flower bed tapers, such that the south side is much narrower than the north. A flower bed, at pavement level, continues from here to the pavement of Beith Street.

We believe part of this space, particularly towards the south, could be a staff car park.

North Side of Beith Street, Going West from Merkland Court

South of Beith Street, Beyond the Crossing

A walkway continues, through gardens, towards the river. This walkway is inlaid with information plaques describing the history of the former Meadowside Ship Yard.

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© 2013, Terry Robinson

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