Glasgow Queen Street Railway Station (Glasgow)

United Kingdom / Scotland / Glasgow / North Hanover Street
 train station, Category A Listed Scotland
The smaller of Glasgow's two main line railway stations, this serves all inter-city routes to the North, as well as the Edinburgh shuttle. The lower level platforms serve as the focus for the east-west North Clyde Line between Airdrie and Helensburgh/Balloch, and has recently been extended to Edinburgh by the Airdrie-Bathgate reopening.

The station itself was built as the terminus of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway in 1842, it eventually became part of the North British Railway, and then the LNER. Queen Street has the largest barrel vaulted roof in Scotland following the demolition of St. Enoch station in the 1970s.

Queen Street has always been the poor relation to the grand cathedral of Central just a few blocks away to the south, this was largely due to the policy of the 1960s - the far more grander rail gateway to the North - Buchanan Street Station - was sacrificed primarily because Queen Street housed the newly electrified North Clyde line, even though its main line platforms are badly constrained in length - in the days when loco hauled expresses operated from Queen Street, the locomotive would almost be in the tunnel mouth!!

2019 heralded the opening of the new extended concourse, created due to the extended platforms needed for the electrification of the main Glasgow-Edinburgh railway line, The new structure, which stands over the former site of Consort House and part of the Millennium Hotel - both were rather unlovely 1970s concrete carbuncles - replaces the old booking office on the Dundas Street side and fronts directly onto George Square.

More ambitious plans exist to develop the airspace rights over the car park area and integrate the station with the neighbouring Buchanan Galleries shopping mall, but these have yet to see the light of day.



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Coordinates:   55°51'46"N   4°15'3"W

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