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Celtic Park (Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc Cheilteach) is a football stadium and the home of Scottish Premiership team Celtic Football Club, in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. With a capacity of 60,832, it is the largest football stadium in Scotland, and the eighth-largest stadium in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Parkhead or Paradise.
The stadium was substantially rebuilt between 1994 and 1998 and is Scotland's largest football stadium by seating capacity. From the early 1960s, Celtic conducted most of their training routines at a facility on the periphery of Parkhead named Barrowfield, east of Celtic Park [ 10 ] (it is not located in the Barrowfield residential area which ...
Parkhead Stadium was a railway station in the east end of Glasgow.It was opened by the Caledonian Railway as Parkhead on 1 February 1897. [1]In recognition of its proximity to the Celtic Park football stadium, it was known as Parkhead (for Celtic Park) by 1904; [2] and it was also referred to in some timetables as Parkhead for Celtic Park.
The following is a list of stadiums in the United Kingdom with a capacity of 5,000 or more. They are ordered by capacity, which is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can normally hold.
The ex-NBR Parkhead station, subsequently renamed Parkhead North railway station (closed) [1] The ex- Cal Parkhead station, subsequently renamed Parkhead Stadium railway station (closed) [ 1 ] Parkhead Forge Siding (closed)
The Parkhead (later Parkhead Stadium) station (1897–1964), immediately north of London Road and east of Celtic Park stadium, was on a new east–west line opened the previous year. Both these routes operated as CR's Glasgow Central Railway. London Road became solely a goods and minerals (coal) depot.
The success at Juvenile level convinced the Bridgeton Waverley committee to seek a place in the Junior leagues, having been permitted by senior club Clyde F.C. and their manager Frank Thompson to play fixtures at their Shawfield Stadium ground in Rutherglen [4] as they sought a local home ground of their own. [7]
Revamped for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, the station is a 15-minute walk from the Commonwealth Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, and Celtic football club's Celtic Park stadium at Parkhead. Due to this, The station is busy on matchdays and a queueing system takes place on Swanson Street