page_title: Crookston, Glasgow
section_title: Crookston Station area
hierarchical_section_title: Crookston, Glasgow / History / Crookston Station area
caption_attribution_description: English: Howford Bridge Crookston Road crossing the White Cart Water. A tight bend feeds the cycle path (National Cycle Route 75 and 7) in from Crookston Road to cross the road via a river side path.
context_page_description: Crookston is a residential suburb on the southwestern edge of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
  Two distinct and geographically separate neighbourhoods about 1 mile apart on opposite sides of the White Cart Water are known by the Crookston name, owing to factors in their development. Both areas share the same main road and fall within the same U.K. and Scottish Parliamentary constituencies, but the northern area falls under the Cardonald ward for Glasgow City Council and is within the G52 postcode zone, while the southern area is in the Greater Pollok ward and the G53 postcode zone.
context_section_description: Although other names such as Cardonald, Hillington, Ingleston, Ralston and Rosshill were associated with the territory north of the White Cart river, in 1885 the Crookston name was still sufficiently prominent locally for it to be chosen as the name of a station on the Glasgow and South Western Railway's new route between Glasgow and Paisley – sited between the White Cart and the main road between the towns (A761 Paisley Road West), the tracks followed the trajectory of the abandoned Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal and was thus titled the Paisley Canal line). Over the next few decades, a small commuter suburb consisting mostly of large villas, was constructed around the station, and inevitably this community became known as Crookston.
  After the lands, previously within the parish of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, were annexed by Glasgow Corporation in 1926, it was gradually surrounded by other residential neighbourhoods including South Cardonald, Hillington, Penilee and Rosshall within the city, also directly bordering the affluent suburb of Ralston, Renfrewshire. Several small developments of housebuilding took place within the area over various eras until almost all the land was built upon, ranging from concrete tenements, terraces of modest houses, semi-detached bungalows and flat-roofed apartment blocks, plus the converted buildings of the original station which were abandoned after the line closed in 1983 – it re-opened in 1990 but now uses only one track and platform for both directions (a small section of double track to the east of Crookston allows trains to pass one another).
  In addition to an eponymous hotel (extended from a villa) on Crookston Road, there is a good provision of local shops and other services including churches on Paisley Road West, and bowling clubs to the east at Cardonald and the west at Ralston. One of very few pre-railway era remnants in the area is Cardonald Place Farm – a mill sited nearby was demolished in the 1930s. The nearest primary schools are in South Cardonald, as is the Catholic Lourdes Secondary School; the local nondenominational high school is Rosshall Academy, built in 2001 immediately south of the Paisley Canal railway lines and next to Ross Hall Hospital and Rosshall Public Park, beyond which is the Howford Bridge carrying the main road south over the White Cart. The local community council covering this area is South Cardonald and Crookston CC.
caption: View of the White Cart Water at Howford Bridge from NCR 7 which runs beneath it
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