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16/05/2023 Glasgow MSP calls to revive rail line and build new city station [The Herald] 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. (Permalink) CGU City of Glasgow Union Railway Electrification Gallowgate Glasgow Cross 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 The Herald City of Glasgow Union Railway
16/05/2023 Hovercrafts and monorails: Scotland, the transport pioneer [The Herald] 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. (Permalink) Ayr CGU City of Glasgow Union Railway Edinburgh Electrification Gallowgate Glasgow Cross The Herald
23/01/2022 Unseen Glasgow photos emerge online of lost St Enoch station and hotel in 1970s [GlasgowLive] The photographs show Glasgow's once sprawling St Enoch Station and its accompanying grand hotel as they looked just a couple of years before they vanished for good. (Permalink) Car park City of Glasgow Union Railway St Enoch Glasgow St Enoch: The last day... Looking out from St Enoch on 26 June 1966, the last day of scheduled train services. Colin Miller 26/06/1966 GlasgowLive
16/01/2022 Glasgow drone photos show potential that exists for New York-style 'High Line' [GlasgowLive] The snaps, taken by Eye in the Sky Glasgow, serve up a fascinating - and unfamiliar - look at the stunning, elevated former train line that cuts through the Gorbals area. (Permalink) City of Glasgow Union Railway Gorbals Gorbals: Looking along the route of the viaduct running between Gorbals station and Clydebridge viaduct. The landscaped area was once home to Gorbals infamous tenements, which were pulled down in the 1960s to ... Graham Morgan 16/02/2010 Gorbals: Looking north towards Gorbals Junction in 1999 from the top of the access stairway in the V between the lines to Paisley (left) and Barrhead (now closed). The CGU Gorbals station (1876-1928) stood on ... Ewan Crawford //1999 GlasgowLive
05/10/2021 Glasgow's Bell Street bridge to undergo £700,000 refurbishment [Network Rail] Network Rail is set to begin a £700,000 bridge improvement project on Bell Street, in the east end of Glasgow. (Permalink) CGU City of Glasgow Union Railway Gallowgate 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 Network Rail