This station and associated approach lines are open. This is the main terminus in Glasgow for services to the south, as well as many local services. Also known as the Gordon Street Lines.
/ /1848 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation to the Caledonian Railway to complete their line to Glasgow with a bridge over the River Clyde in Glasgow and a city station. (Not proceeded with.) |
/ /1865 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) The Caledonian Railway buys land at Blythswoodholm Lands (the lower part of the Blythswood Estate, west of Glasgow's old town centre and west of the later Glasgow Central). The land was taken for use for a new station and line to be built on the north bank west of Glasgow. |
/ /1869 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Caledonian Railway authorised to dispose of land it owns at Blythswoodholm Lands. |
/ /1873 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Gordon Street Station, opened as Glasgow Central, and Gordon Street Lines authorised. |
/ /1875 | Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation to expand and alter the existing Bridge Street station, largely in connection with the opening of Glasgow Central. Original proposed route of Gordon Street Lines abandoned. |
/ /1875 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) In exchange for the Clyde Viaduct [Glasgow Central] [1st] crossing the River Clyde at the Broomielaw, the Caledonian Railway pays the Clyde Trustees £70,500. |
/ /1875 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Compensation to the Clyde Trustees for the Glasgow Bridge (also known as Jamaica Bridge). Additionally the Caledonian Railway contributes to the cost of widening the bridge. |
22/11/1877 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Approval for locomotive shed, Eglinton Street Shed, at Eglinton Street. |
/ /1878 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Eglinton Street Shed, a four road brick locomotive shed with 42ft turntable, opened to reduce light engine movements to Polmadie Shed via the congested Bridge Street Junction to Gushetfaulds section. The new shed was a sub-shed of Polmadie. Opened in anticipation of Glasgow Central. |
/ /1878 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Extension of time to complete lines granted. |
01/10/1878 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Original bridge across the Clyde from Bridge Street to Glasgow Central completed, Clyde Viaduct [Glasgow Central] [1st]. |
14/10/1878 | Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Connection at Bridge Street opened - related to the opening of Glasgow Central. |
01/07/1879 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Gordon Street lines opened - Central Station Junction (just north west of Gushetfaulds Junction) to Eglinton Street Junction to Bridge Street Junction opened. Strathbungo Junction to Eglinton Street Junction opened. |
01/07/1879 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Glasgow Clyde Place (by Bridge Street) opened. |
12/07/1879 | Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) New portions of Bridge Street opened, in connection with the opening of Glasgow Central. |
01/08/1879 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Glasgow Central opened. Initially serving westbound trains over the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway . |
01/09/1879 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Glasgow Central fully opened. Trains for England via the Caledonian Railway are transferred from Glasgow Buchanan Street. The service to Edinburgh Princes Street is also transferred. South Side [CR] closed. |
/ /1881 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Central Station Hotel, at Glasgow Central, authorised. |
19/06/1883 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Glasgow Central - Central Station Hotel opened. |
18/11/1884 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Eglinton Street Shed converted for carriages. |
06/04/1885 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Cathcart Road station opened, a replacement for South Side [CR], closed some years previously when replaced by Glasgow Central. |
01/07/1886 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) With the opening of the Cathcart District Railway to Cathcart [1st] (on 25/05), Cathcart Road station is renamed Gushetfaulds. |
/ /1887 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Extension of time allowing the Caledonian Railway to retain Blythswoodholm Lands. |
/ /1887 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation to expand the station and lay additional approach lines. |
/ /1887 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation to widen the line between Clyde Place (Bridge Street) and Eglinton Street. |
21/11/1889 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Glasgow Clyde Place (by Bridge Street) closed. |
/ /1890 | Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Bridge Street station expanded. |
07/07/1890 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Quadrupling of line from Bridge Street to Eglinton Street Junction. |
07/07/1890 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Widened Clyde Place (Bridge Street) to Eglinton Street opened. |
/ /1899 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation of the enlargement of Glasgow Central and widening of the lines south to Bridge Street along with a new Clyde Viaduct [Glasgow Central]. |
/ /1899 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation to quadruple line from Eglinton Street Junction through Eglinton Street to Central Station Junction. |
/ /1901 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Route of Eglinton Street new lines altered. Authorisiation to build longer Crawford Street bridge (now Kilbirnie Street) - new longer bridge built at an angle to original. Salkeld Street re-routed at its southern end. Victoria Street (now Stromness Street) shortened. |
/ /1902 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Eglinton Street Shed sidings and turntable used for engines again. |
01/06/1904 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Extension to Glasgow Central and Clyde Viaduct [Glasgow Central] opened. |
/ /1906 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Glasgow Central station enlarged and a massive new bridge across the River Clyde opened, Clyde Viaduct [Glasgow Central]. |
01/05/1907 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Gushetfaulds station closed. The buildings and platforms were subsequently removed allowing the tracks to be re-aligned. |
05/04/1908 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) New signal box partially opens at the expanded Glasgow Central. |
03/05/1908 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) New signal box comes into full operation at Glasgow Central. |
28/02/1909 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Line quadrupled from Eglinton Street Junction through Eglinton Street to Central Station Junction. Enlarged Eglinton Street station opened. |
/10/1914 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Eglinton Street Shed gains new pits. |
/ /1915 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Eglinton Street Shed turntable replaced with 51ft. |
/04/1920 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Eglinton Street Shed coaling depot improved. |
04/05/1920 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Eglinton Street Shed rented out to West of Scotland Aviation Co. |
/ /1959 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Eglinton Street Shed sidings, turntable and coaling facility falls out of use due to introduction of DMUs, which are serviced at Cook Street, Smithy Lye Carriage Sidings. |
/01/1961 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Original Clyde Viaduct [Glasgow Central] [1st] bridge over the Clyde taken out of use. |
02/01/1961 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Approach lines to the station re-signaled to use the new bridge only. The electropneumatic power frame signal box on the bridge removed. |
01/02/1965 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Eglinton Street station closed. |
/04/1970 | Caledonian Railway Wishaw and Coltness Railway Clydesdale Junction Railway Polloc and Govan Railway Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) West Coast Main Line electrification authorised. |
/ /1972 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Automatic ticket barriers introduced. |
22/10/1972 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Powerbox modernised. |
06/05/1974 | Caledonian Railway
Wishaw and Coltness Railway
Clydesdale Junction Railway
Polloc and Govan Railway
Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Glasgow Central to Carlisle electrification complete. |
/06/1997 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) At an estimated cost of £25M work to re-glaze Glasgow Central with reinforced wired safety glass begins. The work will be considerable: 50,000 panes will be replaced over the 6.8 acre area, 44,226 square metres of lattice steelwork will be repainted and 2.8 miles of guttering replaced or repaired. To protect passengers a safety deck will be erected over the platforms and concourse at a height of 10 metres. |
13/02/1998 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Last mail train runs from the station to Cardiff. |
/09/2000 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Completion of the £35M re-glazing of Glasgow Central's trainshed which began three years earlier. |
05/01/2004 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Class 390 Pendolino 390004 'Virgin Scot' arrives at Glasgow Central from London, becoming the first Penolino to cover the whole length of the West Coast Main Line. |
/03/2004 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Main departure board replaced with LED version. |
12/05/2010 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) New platforms 12 and 13 opened on the site of the former road carriage roadway, trains entering under the large arch. |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This portion runs from Central Station Junction (at Gushetfaulds) to Glasgow Central Station.
This junction was not at Glasgow Central but around a mile and a half to the south at Gushetfaulds. Here the 1879 approach to Central station via Bridge Street met the existing lines (actually the Clydesdale Junction Railway built short link from Gushetfaulds Junction to South Side [CR].
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This station was to the west of Cathcart Road on the Gordon Street Lines approach to Glasgow Central from Central Station Junction. It was originally named Cathcart Road.
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The platform level canopies and buildings at this station are gone, although low platform mounds remain. For the main platforms the style was similar to the buildings and canopies which survive at Gleneagles and Stirling stations.
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This junction is north of the former Eglinton Street station and south of Bridge Street Junction on the southern approach to Glasgow Central from the Cathcart Circle, Kilmarnock and East Kilbride lines and West Coast Main Line.
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This was a large terminus in Glasgow on the South bank of the River Clyde. No part of the original station remains but portions of its later extension remain on Bridge Street. It was replaced by Glasgow Central, just to the north over the River Clyde.
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A signal box opened at the north end of Bridge Street station, south end of the Clyde Viaduct [Glasgow Central] [1st] in 1879.
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The original Glasgow Central viaduct over the River Clyde was manufactured at the Dalmarnock Iron Works of William Arrol and Company between 1875 and 1879. It was a four track viaduct of five spans 50ft wide.
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This is the busiest station in Scotland. It was established by the Caledonian Railway in 1879 and was hugely expanded in 1901-5.
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This portion runs from Muirhouse South Junction to Eglinton Street Junction giving access to the line to Glasgow Central Station.
This junction was formed in 1879 when the Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) (Gordon Street lines) met the 1849 General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway close to Strathbungo Junction (just to the south).
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This junction opened at the north end of a short 1894 connection which was made to complete the Cathcart District Railway. Rather than cross the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway on the level a double junction was created at Muirhouse Central Junction, the southern end of the connection. Opening this created a duplicate section of line between the north junction and ...
More detailsThis small railway workshops was south of Muirhouse Road on the west side of the Glasgow Central approach lines. It was bounded on the west side by the Muirhouse Saw mills and the line from Muirhouse to Terminus Junction.
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This junction is formed between the Gordon Street Lines (the approach to Glasgow Central from Muirhouse South Junction [1st] opened in 1879) and the Cathcart District Railway of 1886.
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This junction is north of the former Eglinton Street station and south of Bridge Street Junction on the southern approach to Glasgow Central from the Cathcart Circle, Kilmarnock and East Kilbride lines and West Coast Main Line.
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