[2] It was in operation until 1966, when passenger services to St Enoch station ended.
It has been proposed to reopen the station as part of the Glasgow Crossrail project.
In late October 2012 the Cumberland street building was sealed in with concrete blocks.
The two-storey building at the corner of Eglinton Street and Wellcroft Place was demolished without trace, leaving a landscaped area of ground between Eglinton Street and Abbotsford Place.
William Melville, engineer to the Glasgow and South Western Railway, is credited as being the architect of the station buildings in 1899–1900.