Glasgow Central Train Station

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Glasgow Central Train Station

 

Managed by the Network Rail, Glasgow Central in Glasgow, Scotland is the bigger one of the two

main-line railway terminals today. It was opened on July 31, 1879 by the Caledonian Railway.

It is the West Coast Main Line’s northern terminus.

Outside London, the Glasgow Central is the busiest train station in the U.K. According to

Network Rail, approximately 34 million people leave from, or arrive at, Glasgow Central annually.

The station services the entire area of the Greater Glasgow southern town’s urban sprawl and suburbs, the Clyde coast, and the Ayshire coast. It is also the terminus for all services in the inter-city area from Glasgow to areas on the southern border.

The first Central Train Station became available to the public on 1 August 1879 on River Clyde’s north bank. It had eight platforms and a railway bridge on Argyle Avenue connected Bridge Street station

and a 4-track railway bridge which was built by Sir William Arrol. The bridge crossed Clyde River to

the south.

Soon, the station became too congested and a temporary solution in 1890 of widening the Argyle Street bridge and adding a ninth platform on the same bridge was finished. Initially, it was intended to make Bridge Street station big enough to allow eight through lines and to make Central station accomodate

15 platforms.