View from SW showing WSW front of S portal of Buchan Street Station Tunnel with part of relieving arch over Queen Street Station Tunnel on left

Description View from SW showing WSW front of S portal of Buchan Street Station Tunnel with part of relieving arch over Queen Street Station Tunnel on left

Date 24/3/1969

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 699110

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Buchanan Street Station Tunnel, Glasgow This tunnel is on a branch line from the original Garnkirk & Glasgow Railway to a new Glasgow terminus at the top of Buchanan Street. The line was promoted by the Glasgow, Garnkirk & Coatbridge Railway, which had become part of the Caledonian Railway when it was opened in 1849. This shows the western entrance to the tunnel, with a buttress to the right to help to resist the thrust of the water in the bed of the 'Cut of Junction' between the Forth & Clyde and Monkland canals, which lies just behind the parapet seen here. This most elegant piece of civil engineering design has now been obscured by the dumping of spoil to allow building over the former cutting, though the masonry is probably still there. Buchanan Street Station was closed in 1966 and the track lifted soon after. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/16/21

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/699110

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