Mount Vernon
Station 93Thursday, 9th December 2021
Rudy walked here from Garrowhill and caught the 14:45 train to Argyle Street.
Mount Vernon Station
Mount Vernon in the east of Glasgow was first opened in 1866 by the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway. Closed to passengers in 1943 it wasn’t until 1993 that the current station was built on the same site.
Greenoakhill
Just south of Mount Vernon station is the Greenoakhill Quarry landfill site. Apparently one of the largest urban landfills in Europe. There have been recent plans submitted to increase it’s height but at the same time a long-running project is turning now disused areas into the Greenoakhill Forest.
The weather threatened to turn very wet so Rudy had to leave Greenoakhill as “incomplete planned” walk for now.
Mount Vernon is just under twenty minutes by train from Glasgow Central low level platform 16. Trains for Mount Vernon currently (winter 2021/22) terminate at either Whifflet or Motherwell. This is an unstaffed station but there is step-free access and shelters for both platforms.