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Mount Florida
Mount Florida station on 24 August 2008
Location
Place	Mount Florida
Local authority	Glasgow
Coordinates	55°49′37″N 4°15′43″W / 55.827, -4.262Coordinates: 55°49′37″N 4°15′43″W / 55.827, -4.262
Operations
Station code	MFL
Managed by	First ScotRail
Platforms in use	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.620 million
2005/06 *	0.746 million
2006/07 *	0.782 million
History
Original company	Cathcart District Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mount Florida from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Mount Florida railway station is a staffed island platform station on the Cathcart Circle. It serves the Mount Florida and Battlefield areas of Glasgow. Services are provided by First ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.

History

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Due to its proximity to Hampden Park, the station can be very busy on days where there is a football match or any other event taking place at Hampden. A third platform had been provided on the Inner Circle to the south of the main station opposite the site of the extinct goods yard. This platform was only brought into use during major events.

In January 2008, the northern exit from the station was closed whilst disabled access, including a lift was provided. The stairs reopened in September 2008, although the lift remains to be brought into service.

Services

2008

A typical weekday and Saturday service is 5 trains per hour to Glasgow Central (one train per hour in each direction on the Cathcart Circle, two from Neilston and one from Newton via Kirkhill), two trains per hour to Neilston and one train per hour to Newton (the one other hourly train to/from Newton runs via Langside). A Sunday service is almost the same except the Cathcart Circle trains do not operate. As a result, only three trains per hour operate to Glasgow Central.

Sources

• Butt, R.V.J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st Edition ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 

• Kernahan, Jack (1980). The Cathcart Circle. Falkirk, Stirlingshire: Scottish Railway Preservation Society. ISBN 0-9043-9601-0. OCLC 85045869. 

• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 

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