St Enoch station was a former mainline railway station in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, between 1876 and 1966, before it was eventually demolished in 1977.
Located on St Enoch Square in the city centre, it was opened by the City of Glasgow Union Railway, in 1876. The first passenger train stopped there on 1 May 1876 and the official opening took place on 17 October 1876.
In 1883 it was taken over by the Glasgow and South Western Railway and it b...
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St Enoch station was a former mainline railway station in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, between 1876 and 1966, before it was eventually demolished in 1977.
Located on St Enoch Square in the city centre, it was opened by the City of Glasgow Union Railway, in 1876. The first passenger train stopped there on 1 May 1876 and the official opening took place on 17 October 1876.
In 1883 it was taken over by the Glasgow and South Western Railway and it became their head quarters. 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.
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 as part of the rationalisation of the railway...
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