St Enoch railway station
Glasgow St Enoch | |
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LMS | |
| Key dates | |
| 12 December 1870 | Dunlop Street station opened[1] |
| 17 October 1876 | Dunlop Street station closed[1] |
| 17 October 1876 | Opened[1] |
| 27 June 1966 | Closed[1] |
St Enoch station was a mainline
between 1876 and 1966. The hotel was the first building in Glasgow to be fitted out with electric lighting. The station was demolished in 1977.History
Located on St Enoch Square in the city centre, it was opened by the City of Glasgow Union Railway in 1876.[1][2] The first passenger train stopped there on 1 May 1876 and the official opening took place on 17 October 1876.[2]
In 1883 it was taken over by the
It was the site of a
The suburban service to East Kilbride was diverted to St Enoch in 1959, when all but three services were dieselised. The diversion was said to be necessary to reduce the numbers of trains at Glasgow Central.[3]
It was a large station with 12 platforms and two impressive semi-cylindrical glass/iron roofed
The St Enoch Hotel which fronted the station was also demolished in 1977.[5]
Current site
The site of the station is now occupied by another glass structure, the
Though the mainline station is gone, parts of the arcaded approach embankments (now containing shops and restaurants) can be seen to the east of the shopping centre's car park on Osborne Street.[7] Although the short remaining section which once led into the station now goes nowhere, the southern section remains as a freight line along the route of the Glasgow City Union Railway, crossing the Clydebridge Viaduct of 1899 which spans the River Clyde.[8]
The red sandstone ticket hall which stands in St Enoch Square immediately west of the shopping centre is not part of the former rail station, but is the former ticket hall for the adjacent St Enoch subway station on the Glasgow Subway.
Dunlop Street railway station
St Enoch station replaced a previous station close by called Glasgow Dunlop Street, which was opened by the City of Glasgow Union Railway on 12 December 1870[1] and closed by the Glasgow and South Western Railway the same day St Enoch opened.[1]
Services
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| Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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| Terminus | North British Railway City of Glasgow Union Railway |
Gallowgate | ||
| Terminus | Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
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Gorbals | ||
| Terminus | Glasgow and South Western Railway City of Glasgow Union Railway |
Main Street | ||
References
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h Butt (1995), page 103
- ^ a b c Thomas (1971)
- ^ Railway Magazine October 1959 p. 728
- ^ "Passengers centralised". Railway Magazine. 112 (784): 429. August 1966.
- ^ a b c Williams (1999)
- ^ Seen in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl
- ^ "Aerial view of Osborne Street, Glasgow showing approach viaduct to the extinct St Enoch Station". Retrieved 10 February 2008.
- ^ "City of Glasgow Union Railway".
Sources
- OL 11956311M.
- OCLC 6091133.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. OCLC 22311137.
- Thomas, John (1971). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. VI Scotland: The Lowlands and the Borders (1st ed.). Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. OCLC 16198685.
- Thomas, John; Paterson, Rev A. J. S. (1984). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. VI Scotland: The Lowlands and the Borders (2nd ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. OCLC 12521072.
- Williams, David (January 1999). The Glasgow guide : guided walks through old and new Glasgow. Edinburgh: Canongate. OCLC 40685704.