Bellgrove Railway Station is in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, serving the city's Calton, Gallowgate and south Dennistoun neighbourhoods. The station is approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east of Glasgow Queen Street, and is managed by ScotRail.

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Bellgrove
A Class 334 Juniper leaves Bellgrove with the Bluevale and Whitevale Towers high rise flats in the distance
General information
Location	Parkhead, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55.8567°N 4.2240°W / 55.8567; -4.2240
Grid reference	NS608648
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BLG
History
Original company	Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 June 1871	Opened
Passengers
2018/19	0.767 million
Interchange	21,381
2019/20	0.726 million
Interchange	18,784
2020/21	0.148 million
Interchange	1,362
2021/22	0.422 million
Interchange	9,646
2022/23	0.554 million
Interchange	15,751
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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The station is an island platform served by trains on the North Clyde Line, and provides an interchange between the lines to Springburn and Edinburgh Waverley.

The station is accessed from Bellgrove Street via stairs, and is approximately a mile (2 km) away from Celtic Park.

The station opened in 1871 on the North British Railways Coatbridge branch and the City of Glasgow Union Railway cross-city line from Shields Junction. The City of Glasgow Union Railway (CGUR) added a branch northwestwards to Springburn in 1875, to give access to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway main line at Cowlairs by means of running powers over the E&G Sighthill Branch, whilst the impressive terminus at Glasgow St Enoch opened a year later. Services on the Coatbridge route did not run there however, the NBR instead using a separate terminus known as College situated on the end of a short spur from the CGUR route southwest of Bellgrove. This only lasted until 1886, when the Glasgow City and District Railway was opened from Partickhill via a low level station at Queen Street to join the CGUR at High Street East Junction. This was henceforth used by all services from the Coatbridge & Airdrie direction and also by the newly inaugurated passenger services to Springburn (trains had been progressively introduced on the route prior to this, but only as far as Barnhill).

The North British company took over the CGUR in 1896 jointly with the Glasgow and South Western Railway, operating all services on the Springburn line thereafter. Local traffic on the remainder of the line from St Enoch declined in the face of strong competition from the local tram network and by 1902, the one intermediate station at Gallowgate had been closed.^[1] Services continued to run from St Enoch to Bridgeton Central until 1913, but thereafter the line was only used by freight & parcels traffic, periodic excursions & other special trains.

Services beyond Airdrie were withdrawn by British Railways in January 1956, whilst St Enoch closed to passengers a decade later in June 1966 and was subsequently demolished. One more positive development was the North Clyde Line electrification scheme of 1960, which brought overhead wiring to the Queen St LL - Airdrie & Springburn routes in November that year.

The former CGUR route is still used by freight and empty stock transfer moves between Queen Street High Level or Eastfield depot and the city's other main DMU depot at Corkerhill on the south side of Glasgow, whilst the Bathgate link was restored by Network Rail in 2010, after an absence of 28 years.

On 6 March 1989, the station was the scene of a head-on collision between two Class 303 trains on the Springburn branch in which two people died.^[2]