Station
Glasgow Queen Street Low Level (1886-)
Opened on the Glasgow City and District Railway.
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Bathgate and Airdrie.
Open on the Glasgow to Cumbernauld via Duke Street.
Open on the Glasgow to Helensburgh.
This is a two platform station beneath Glasgow Queen Street High Level. Trains at the high level station can be heard arriving and departing from below.
This station was built directly below the already open High Level station (opened in 1842 as the Glasgow terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) on the Glasgow City and District Railway which connected together North British Railway owned lines in the west and the east of the city with a new set of station serving the city itself. It was immediately an urban line, an alternative to the high level main line station and a part of a network reaching over long distances to Edinburgh Waverley.
The station had four platforms - two westbound on the south side and two eastbound on the north side. The central island platform was narrow. At either end of the platforms the station is open to the air above but the majority of it is entirely covered with the girders supporting the mainline station. There were signal boxes on gantries over the lines at both west and east ends.
The island platform and its lines have been abandoned, allowing the remaining platforms to be extended onto the trackbed and the lines realigned.
With the closure of Glasgow Central Low Level in 1964 the line through station became the sole east-west standard gauge line across the city until Central Low Level re-opened in 1979.
To the west the Charing Cross Tunnel carries the line to Charing Cross station and the the east High Street is reached by the High Street Tunnel.
Nearby stations Glasgow Queen Street High Level Buchanan Street [Subway] Buchanan Street Glasgow Central Argyle Street Glasgow Central Low Level Glasgow St Enoch Dunlop Street St Enoch [Subway] Glasgow Cross College [1st] High Street Cowcaddens [Subway] Central Station Broomielaw Hoist Gallowgate | Other railway and industry locations Buchanan Street Goods High Street Tunnel Buchanan Street Charing Cross Tunnel Cowlairs Tunnel Buchanan Street Shed Sun Foundry [Glasgow] College Goods High Street Goods St Enoch Locomotive Depot Glasgow Pottery Tourist/other George Square [Glasgow] Buchanan Galleries Glasgow Royal Concert Hall St Enoch Shopping Centre |
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. |
28/08/1863 | Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway Line opened as a single track. Stations at; Bearsden, Milngavie. The line ran from Milngavie to Milngavie Junction (later renamed Westerton Junction) with trains continuing to Glasgow Queen Street High Level until the Glasgow City and District Railway opened after which trains started to serve Glasgow Queen Street Low Level. |
08/01/1956 | Glasgow City and District RailwayCoatbridge Branch (North British Railway)Monkland and Kirkintilloch RailwayBathgate and Coatbridge Railway (Monkland Railways)Edinburgh and Bathgate RailwayEdinburgh and Glasgow Railway Last regular Glasgow Queen Street Low Level to Edinburgh Waverley via Shettleston, Coatbridge Sunnyside and Bathgate Upper service runs. |