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Plans to transform Glasgow High Street station are set to progress despite delays.
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High Street: A six-coach Balloch to Airdrie service calls at High Street on Saturday 19 May. The station is becoming increasingly surrounded by student housing; surely no bad thing as it was for so long in the mid ...
David Panton 19/05/2018


High Street: Other cities suffered a decline in their medieval heart after the smart set started to move out west, but Glasgow fared worst than most. There's little left to interest the tourist in the gap-site Hi ...
David Panton 17/03/2010

Three ScotRail station ticket offices earmarked for closure are to be reprieved for at least two years pending a review of their potential to increase sales.
(Permalink) Bellshill Cartsdyke Clydebank Dalmuir East Kilbride High Street Hyndland Larbert Paisley Gilmour Street Partick Ticket offices Wemyss Bay Wishaw Woodhall


Cartsdyke: Although superficially similar to its coevals in Glasgow and Lanarkshire Cartsdyke's station has a ticket window separate from the waiting room. I'm sure they knew what they were doing.
David Panton 07/03/2019


Clydebank: A study of the station building at Clydebank, one of the many standard structures put up on electrified lines in the Glasgow area in the 1970s leaving few original buildings. In the background is the ...
David Panton 01/12/2018


Woodhall: Glasgow Road entrance to Woodhall station on 29 April. Short on well-kept flower beds, no comfy waiting room, but at least there is a ticket office.
David Panton 29/04/2009

A Glasgow station remains closed today, Monday, after the murder of a teenage boy on Saturday.
(Permalink) Crime High Street Temporary closure

ScotRail has warned of commuter chaos this morning after a train broke down at a busy Glasgow station.

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We all know what happened to Grahamston, but what about the other areas that were lost to the arrival of train stations, lines and goods depots?
(Permalink) Glasgow Central Glasgow Queen Street High Street St Enoch


High Street East Junction: View west at High Street East Junction on 8 June 1957 as 57553 approaches from the Saltmarket direction with a down freight on the CGU line. Over on the right 67631 is passing with an eastbound train ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/06/1957

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