Govan subway station is a station that serves the area of

Govan Govan ( ; Cumbric: ''Gwovan''; Scots language, Scots: ''Gouan''; Scottish Gaelic: ''Baile a' Ghobhainn'') is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of southwest Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated west of Glasgow city centre, on the sout ...

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, Scotland. It is located on the south side of the

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. Just south of the station is the main depot and test track for the Glasgow Subway. The station is located near the historic

Govan Old Parish Church Govan Old Parish Church is a former parish church serving Govan in Glasgow from the 5th or 6th century AD until 2007. In that year, the Church of Scotland united the two Govan congregations with Linthouse and established the parish church at Gova ...

. This station forms an interchange with Govan bus station, being adjacent to it. This, combined with the fact that the subway to Partick forms the only rail link across the Clyde west of the city centre, means that it is one of the busier stations. Annual passenger boardings have fallen below one million in recent years and with 990,000 recorded in 2004/05. The station has two platforms. Prior to its closure for modernisation in 1977, the station was called Govan Cross. The appearance of cracks in the roof of the old station led to its premature closure in 1977, before the modernisation programme could take place. As part of this programme, the station's surface buildings were replaced, and its single

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

was changed to a dual

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arrangement. Govan (under its former name of Govan Cross) is one of the stations mentioned in Cliff Hanley's song ''The Glasgow Underground''. Govan includes a

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and

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. Along with St Enoch subway station, it is one of two Glasgow Subway stations that is wheelchair accessible. On 29 June 2011, a man died after being hit by one of the service's rolling stock at 09:12.

Past passenger numbers

* 2004/05: 0.990 million annually * 2011/12: 0.945 million annually

References

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