Glasgow Queen Street railway station
Glasgow Queen Street 
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| Scottish Gaelic: Sràid na Banrighinn | |
Glasgow Queen Street main concourse
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| Location | |
| Place | Glasgow City Centre |
| Local authority | Glasgow City Council |
| Coordinates | 55°51′44″N 4°15′04″W / 55.8622°N 4.2512°WCoordinates: 55°51′44″N 4°15′04″W / 55.8622°N 4.2512°W |
| Grid reference | NS591655 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | GLQ |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 9 (2 on low level) |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 16.371 million |
| 2012/13 |
 16.452 million |
| 2013/14 |
15.760 million |
| 2014/15 |
16.959 million |
| 2015/16 |
16.424 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | SPT |
| History | |
| Original company |
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway (High Level) Glasgow City and District Railway (Low Level) |
| Pre-grouping | North British Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| 21 February 1842 | High Level Station opened |
| 15 March 1886 | Low Level Station opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Glasgow Queen Street from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Glasgow Queen Street (Scottish Gaelic: Sràid na Banrighinn) is a city centre railway terminal in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the smaller of the city's two main line railway termini and the third busiest station in Scotland. The station is situated between George Street to the south and Cathedral Street Bridge to the north, at the northern end of Queen Street adjacent to George Square. Queen Street station serves the Greater Glasgow conurbation's northern towns and suburbs, the Edinburgh shuttle, and is the terminus for all inter-city services to destinations in the North of Scotland. The other main city-centre station in Glasgow being Glasgow Central.
The station was built by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and opened on 21 February 1842. In 1865 the E&GR was absorbed into the North British Railway, in 1878 the entire station was redesigned by the civil engineer James Carswell. It became part of the LNER group in 1923.
The climb through the tunnel to Cowlairs is at 1 in 42 and until 1909 trains were hauled up on a rope operated by a stationary engine, although experiments were carried out using banking engines in 1844–48. In 1928 there was a railway accident causing 3 fatalities when a train leaving the station slipped to a standstill and rolled back into another train. Modern diesel trains have no difficulty with the climb.
The adjacent Buchanan Street station of the rival Caledonian Railway closed on 7 November 1966 as a result of the Beeching axe and its services to Stirling, Perth, Inverness, Dundee and Aberdeen transferred to Queen Street. This caused difficulties with longer trains, as Queen Street is in a confined position between George Square and the tunnel.
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