Interior View showing control office

Description Interior View showing control office

Date 14/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733553

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 'torpedo' building on the west side of the enlarged concourse. The upper floor housed the train information screens, manually operated, with moveable boards for times and stations served. These could be read by passengers as they walked to their trains. The station as completed is a masterpiece of compression, and still handles large numbers of trains and passengers. This train information system was a masterpiece of clarity, but its labour intensity resulted in its closure in about 1970 and replacement by a much less effective electronic system. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/30/27

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