St Enoch railway station

Glasgow St Enoch
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
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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.