GLASGOW Central Station is one of Scotland’s busiest railway stations.
Now an A-listed building, with 15 high level and two low level platforms used by 38m people annually, it is hard to imagine there was once resistance to it being built at all.
It’s estimated that during its first year over the Glasgow Fair Week around 21,890 passengers used the station. The Clyde Navigation Trust and the Admiralty opposed any railway bridges that might restrict river traffic and trade. Glasgow Corporation objected, citing poor station premises in other cities, and other railway companies moved to block any plans for a new city centre station.
Central Station opened on August 1, 1879 with eight platforms. The low-level station was a later addition with two platforms, opening in August 1896, initially so that freight traffic from the then booming docks and shipyards could travel underground. Despite closing in 1964 the low-level was reopened successfully in 1979 after electrification.
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