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Glasgow Queen Street station

Glasgow Queen Street National Rail
Scottish Gaelic: Sràid na Banrighinn
Glasgow Queen Street - Abellio 170402 arriving from Alloa.JPG
Glasgow Queen Street main concourse (Electrified)
Location
Place Glasgow City Centre
Local authority Glasgow City Council
Coordinates 55°51′44″N 4°15′04″W / 55.8622°N 4.2512°W / 55.8622; -4.2512Coordinates: 55°51′44″N 4°15′04″W / 55.8622°N 4.2512°W / 55.8622; -4.2512
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
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12 Decrease 16.371 million
2012/13 Increase 16.452 million
2013/14 Decrease 15.760 million
2014/15 Increase 16.959 million
2015/16 Decrease 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 RailUK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* 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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