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John Mason, MSP for Glasgow Shettleston, said that the new station at Glasgow Cross would allow trains to run from Ayr to Edinburgh, stopping in Glasgow, but not using Central or Queen Street.
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High Street Junction: 334025 on an Edinburgh - Milngavie service begins the descent to High Street station and the low level tunnel section of the line on 24th January 2015. The tracks of the little used City of Glasgow Un ...
Colin McDonald 24/01/2015


Shields Road [CGU]: Shields Road station had platforms on lines serving both Glasgow Central and St Enoch. These are the St Enoch (and City Union) lines looking west on 5 February. The Glasgow and Paisley lines can be se ...
David Panton 05/02/2011


Gallowgate: Ex NBR 0.6.2T 69195 passing Gallowgate with brake van in 1957. Looking to High Street Junction.
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/06/1957

SNP MSP John Mason has called for the electrification of a railway line running through Glasgow city centre, as well as a new station that would 'take pressure off' Queen Street station and Central station. The MSP says a new station at Glasgow Cross would allow trains to run directly from Ayr to Edinburgh and stop in Glasgow en route but not at either of the city's two main stations.
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Network Rail is set to begin a £700,000 bridge improvement project on Bell Street, in the east end of Glasgow.
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Gallowgate: View south along Molendinar Street towards Gallowgate on a wet 6 May 2007, with Bell Street running off to the right. Below the bridge are the arches that once formed the entrance to Gallowgate statio ...
John Furnevel 06/05/2007

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