The Station opened on the 1st of July 1879 according to a contemporary Glasgow Herald notice. These continued to terminate at Bridge Street even after Central Station had opened on 1 August 1879. On 19 March 1883, there was a collision between two trains at Eglinton Street station in which four people died and many more were injured. The crash involved the 6:15pm train from Central Station to East Kilbride and the 5pm train from Edinburgh to Glasgow Central, which had stopped at Eglinton Street Station. The driver of the Edinburgh train failed to heed the signal against the train leaving the station. The East Kilbride train had left Central on time and had a clear signal to proceed. It was slowing down when it collided with the Edinburgh train which was getting up steam. The drivers and firemen of both trains survived the crash, having been violently thrown from their engines. Opened by the
Caledonian Railway on the former routes of the
Cathcart District Railway and
Polloc and Govan Railway on the southern approached to Glasgow Central, Eglinton Street station became part of the
London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station was located in the routes to the: • Two platforms -
Cathcart Circle, the
Barrhead, East Kilbride and Kilmarnock lines • Four platforms -
West Coast Main Line The station was closed in 1965. ==The site today==