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Location

The station is located between Dumbarton Road (to the south) and Dalcross Street (to the north), on the west side of an alley joining the two.

Entrances and Exits

There's one entrance/exit onto the west side of the alley.

Local Road Crossings

The junction of Dumbarton Road (east/west) Byres Road (North),
Partick Bridge Street (southeast, blocked to traffic) and Cooperswell Street (southwest)

A sounder indicates when the junction is safe to cross. There’s tactile paving and rotating cones at all crossings around this junction. There are railings along the kerb around this junction, with gaps at the crossing points.

North Arm, Byres Road

This is a single-stage crossing with tactile paving on each side. As you cross to the east, the post with push button and rotating cone is some distance to your left with the railings in front of you. When crossing towards the west, the post is some distance to your right, with the railings in front of you.

East Arm, Dumbarton Road

The posts are east of the crossing, that is to your left as you cross towards the south, again some distance east of the tactile paving.

Southeast Arm, Partick Bridge Street

This is blocked to traffic with bollards along the left-hand edge of the pavement.

Southwest Arm, Cooperswell Street

The post is to your right, beside the edge of the tactile paving, as you cross in either direction.

West Arm, Dumbarton Road

The post is to your right, beside the edge of the tactile paving as you cross in either direction.

Local Buses

We found no bus stops within the scope of this survey.

Local Features

As you move west, (away from Byres Road) on the north side of Dumbarton Road, you pass shops on your right, then a wide passage leading north from Dumbarton Road towards the station.

West Side of Passage

  shop window
door to Sense Scotland
station entrance
blank door

East Side

  blank wall

The passage beers left, up a slight slope, then right again, to become an open path continuing north between the wall of a tenement building on the left (west) and an open space to your right. The slope steepens just before you reach the pavement of Dalcross Street, running east/west.

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© 2005, Terry Robinson

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to whom we extend our sincere thanks.