St Andrew's Cross, Glasgow

St Andrew's Cross, also known as Eglinton Toll, is a road junction in the south side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

Addresses on each side of the cross come under three different postcodes (G5, G41 and G42), indicating its status as a locality which is not classed as falling fully within any single district of the city.

[9][10][11] Several local bus routes (previously also trams)[2] use the roads meeting at the cross, and its proximity to the Larkfield bus depot off Victoria Road made it a popular point for drivers to relieve one another at shift ends,[12][13] with the Star Bar public house and diner, noted for its bargain meal prices[14][15] located at its northern apex receiving much of its patronage from them.

This practice has become less common since the closure of the depot in 2014,[16] with the new facility, which opened later the same year, located a few blocks further east at Cathcart Road.

[17] The cross also once had a power station,[18][19] a gasworks,[20] a tram depot (1890s),[21][22] a cinema[23] and a large dance hall, The Plaza Ballroom, in its vicinity;[24][25] the latter has since been demolished and replaced by modern apartments which incorporate some of the original red sandstone facade,[26] while part of the power station, which was later adapted by the local council into a printing works, survives but as a derelict structure.

Wedge-shaped tenement (known as a gushet in Scotland) building at the north apex (constructed 1878) displaying 'St Andrew's Cross' lettering
View of the junction looking south, showing modern apartment block on the site of the Plaza Ballroom
Facade of disused St Andrew's Works (power station / print works)