St Enoch railway station

Glasgow St Enoch
Glasgow St Enoch
	St Enoch railway station and hotel in 1879. Photograph by James Valentine
General information
Location	Glasgow, Scotland; United Kingdom
Coordinates	55°51′26″N4°15′13″W / 55.85730°N 4.25370°W
Grid reference	NS589649
Platforms	12
Other information
Status	Demolished, 1977
History
Original company	City of Glasgow Union Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
12 December 1870	Dunlop Street station opened
17 October 1876	Dunlop Street station closed
17 October 1876	Opened
27 June 1966	Closed

Last updated November 21, 2024

St Enoch station was a mainline railway station in the city of Glasgow, Scotland 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 Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) and it became their headquarters.^[2] Services ran to most parts of the G&SWR system, including Ayr, Dumfries, Carlisle, Kilmarnock and Stranraer. In partnership with the Midland Railway, through services also ran to England, using the Settle and Carlisle Railway from Carlisle to Leeds, Sheffield, Derby and London St Pancras; the so-called Thames-Clyde route.

It was the site of a rail crash in 1903 in which 16 passengers were killed and 64 injured when a train overran the buffers. In the 1923 grouping it was taken over and then operated by the London Midland and Scottish Railway. After the nationalisation of the United Kingdom rail network, the station was run by British Railways.

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 train sheds. The station was closed on 27 June 1966^[1] as part of the rationalisation of the railway system undertaken by the British Railways Board chairman Dr. Richard Beeching; upon closure its 250 trains and 23,000 passengers a day were diverted to Central.^[4] The roofs of the structure were demolished, despite protests, in 1977.^[5] The clock that was suspended from the roof of the station was saved from destruction and is now on display in Cumbernauld Town Centre.^[6]

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 St Enoch Centre, a large shopping centre. The remains of the station and hotel were used to help fill in the Queen's Dock, today the home of the SEC Centre, the SEC Armadillo and the OVO Hydro.^[5]

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

Glasgow Central & St Enoch approaches

Legend

Preceding station		Following station
Terminus	North British Railway City of Glasgow Union Railway	Gallowgate
Terminus	Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway	Gorbals
Terminus	Glasgow and South Western Railway City of Glasgow Union Railway	Main Street

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References

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Butt (1995), page 103
1 2 3 Thomas (1971)
↑ Railway Magazine October 1959 p. 728
↑ "Passengers centralised". Railway Magazine. 112 (784): 429. August 1966.
1 2 3 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

Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
Johnston, Colin; Hulme, John H. (1979). Glasgow Stations (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-7569-5. 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. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. 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. ISBN 0-7153-5408-6. 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. ISBN 0-9465-3712-7. OCLC 12521072.
Williams, David (January 1999). The Glasgow guide : guided walks through old and new Glasgow. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 0-86241-840-2. OCLC 40685704.

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[butt103-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Butt (1995), page 103

[JohnThomas-2] 1 2 3 Thomas (1971)

[3] Railway Magazine October 1959 p. 728

[4] "Passengers centralised". Railway Magazine. 112 (784): 429. August 1966.

[GlasgowGuide-5] 1 2 3 Williams (1999)

[6] Seen in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl

[7] "Aerial view of Osborne Street, Glasgow showing approach viaduct to the extinct St Enoch Station" . Retrieved 10 February 2008.

[8] "City of Glasgow Union Railway".

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