Opened by the North British Railway in 1874 on their route linking the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway at Maryhill to Queens Dock on the north side of the River Clyde, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail. The line towards was electrified in 1960, along with the line southwards to & as part of the North Clyde Line modernisation scheme. The chord from Maryhill remains diesel worked. This chord was closed completely in 1985 and lifted three years later, but relaid and reopened in 2005 when the Maryhill Line was extended as part of the project to re-open the railway to Larkhall on the Argyle Line. After the 2005 re-opening, there had been no physical link between the two routes here – the single line from Maryhill Park Junction terminated in its own separate bay platform on the eastern side of the station and the two routes were under the control of different signalling centres. However, in late 2015, Network Rail carried out a programme of works to connect the Maryhill chord to the North Clyde Line, just north of Anniesland station. This was done to provide a diversionary route from the main Edinburgh to Glasgow line into Low Level while the High Level station was shut during 2016 for tunnel works; however, it is intended that the new connection be permanent.
Services
There is a regular service daily from Anniesland to Glasgow Queen Street on the North Clyde Line and to Glasgow Central on the Argyle Line. Destinations that are accessible from Anniesland are, and and northwestbound and,, and on the Argyle Line and and Edinburgh Waverley on the North Clyde Line southeastbound. Argyle line arrivals are from Motherwell, Whifflet and. There is a half-hourly service from Anniesland on the Maryhill Line to Glasgow Queen Street via Monday to Saturdays. Since a timetable revision on 18 May 2014, a limited hourly Sunday service operates on the route via Maryhill.
