Ibrox subway station

Ibrox Glasgow Subway
General information
LocationIbrox, Glasgow
Scotland
Coordinates55°51′16″N 4°18′19″W / 55.85444°N 4.30528°W / 55.85444; -4.30528
Operated bySPT
Platforms2
Construction
Structure typeunderground
AccessibleNo
Other information
Fare zoneG
History
Opened14 December 1896
Rebuilt16 April 1980; 44 years ago (1980-04-16)
Previous namesCopland Road (1896–1977)
Passengers
20181.098 million annually[1]
Services
Preceding station Glasgow Subway SPT Following station
Cessnock
anticlockwise / inner circle
Glasgow Subway Govan
clockwise / outer circle

Ibrox subway station is a station on the Glasgow subway, serving the Ibrox area of the city. The station was known as Copland Road until 1977. Its surface buildings were replaced during the Subway's modernisation programme, with the main entrance still located on Copland Road. The station now has a side platform arrangement for boarding trains.

Particularly of note is the nearby Ibrox Stadium, home of Rangers F.C. The station is extremely busy on match days, with an additional entrance on Woodville Street opening to accommodate the vastly increased volume of passenger traffic. However, the station is generally quiet at other times and records around 540,000 boardings per year.[2]

Also nearby is Glasgow Science Centre, although SPT suggests that Cessnock station is the best alighting point for the Science Centre, because it is closer.

Past passenger numbers

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  • 2004/05: 0.520 million annually[2]
  • 2011/12: 0.510 million annually[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Request for some usage statistics". Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 11 January 2019. Archived from the original on 1 March 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2019 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.
  2. ^ a b http://www.spt.co.uk/publications/stats2005/s&t2005.pdf Archived 2007-03-28 at the Wayback Machine spt.co.uk
  3. ^ "Freedom of Information request: Subway station patronage - 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012". Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 18 December 2012. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.