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St Enoch railway station

Glasgow St Enoch
St Enoch railway station in 1879.jpg
St Enoch railway station hotel in 1879. Photograph by James Valentine
Location
Place Glasgow
Area Glasgow
Coordinates 55°51′26″N 4°15′13″W / 55.85730°N 4.25370°W / 55.85730; -4.25370Coordinates: 55°51′26″N 4°15′13″W / 55.85730°N 4.25370°W / 55.85730; -4.25370
Grid reference NS589649
Operations
Original company City of Glasgow Union Railway
Pre-grouping Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping LMS
Platforms 12
History
12 December 1870 Dunlop Street station opened
17 October 1876 Dunlop Street station closed
17 October 1876 Opened
27 June 1966 Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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St Enoch station was a mainline railway station in the city of Glasgow, Scotland between 1876 and 1966. It was demolished in 1977. The hotel was the first building in Glasgow to be fitted out with electric lighting.

Located on St Enoch Square in the city centre, it was opened by the City of Glasgow Union Railway in 1876. The first passenger train stopped there on 1 May 1876 and the official opening took place on 17 October 1876.

In 1883 it was taken over by the Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) and it became their headquarters. Services ran to most parts of the G&SWR system, including Ayr, Dumfries, Carlisle, Kilmarnock and Stranraer. In partnership with the Midland Railway, through services also ran to England, using the Settle and Carlisle Railway from Carlisle to Leeds, Sheffield, Derby and London St Pancras.

It was the site of a rail crash in 1903 in which 16 passengers were killed and 64 injured when a train overran the buffers. In the 1923 grouping it was taken over and then operated by the London Midland and Scottish Railway. After the nationalisation of the United Kingdom rail network, the station was run by British Railways.


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