Interior View showing roof support girders
SC 733552
Description Interior View showing roof support girders
Date 14/7/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 733552
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Central Station, Gordon Street, Glasgow The first part of Central Station was opened in 1879 by the Caledonian Railway as a city-centre terminus for its Anglo-Scottish services. It was enlarged and remodelled between 1899 and 1905 to designs by Donald Mathieson, engineer and James Miller, architect, to handle most the Company's services. This shows the interface between the 1899-1905 extension to the train shed, on the right, and the original 1879 train shed, looking across platform 11 to platforms 9 and 10, on which are the pairs of riveted steel columns which support the ends of both the old and new roof trusses. The station as completed is a masterpiece of compression, and still handles large numbers of trains and passengers. The management of pedestrian flow is particularly good, though somewhat reduced in effectiveness by modern commercial developments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/30/26
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