The Botanical Gardens Station
The Glasgow central railway opened in 1894 and ran mostly underground from Stobcross Junction to Mary Hill.
The Botanical gardens station was used to take people directly into well the botanical gardens strangely enough!! As the station building was just inside the gardens the committee of the time decreed that it should have to social status befitting the garden itself. So the original building was built by James Miller with a bit of flair it had small domes above the roof which to some resembled a mini Kremlin!
Sadly the station was considered surplus to requirements in 1939 and was closed never to open again. The 
station building was to find further use though first as a Silversmiths shop and then later as a Tea Room called the Silver Slipper and finally as a Nightclub called Sergeant Peppers until its demise in 1970 when it was burnt down.
The rest of the building was demolished and on our was to find an entrance to the underground section it was possible to see the floor of where the station used to be.
The stairs leading down to the platforms are showing serious decay from the amount of time they have been disused …… some steel beams are completely rotten thou and the wood steps are nearly non existent! It is still possible to see the holes cut into the roof of the station which used to allow steam to escape from the trains (there was no electric trains when this station first opened). This has allowed a little wood to grow where the tracks would have been …. And a little colony of frogs to live there too!
The platforms themselves are very long which I suppose gives an idea of how busy this station would have been at one point but now are slightly marred by graffiti…. Thou some of it is rather more interesting that the usual tagging shite. The tunnels extend out either end but we were all a little too cold and a lot too wet to go too far into them!
There are plans to rebuild the station as it was and turn it into a restaurant and café and using the platform as the performance area!