View from WNW showing WSW front of signal box with buildings in foreground

Description View from WNW showing WSW front of signal box with buildings in foreground

Date 14/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733575

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Signal Box, St Enoch Station (St Enoch Square), Glasgow St Enoch was Glasgow's first large city-centre railway station, built for the Glasgow and South Western Railway. A temporary terminus at Dunlop Street was opened in 1870. The St Enoch Station was completed in 1876, and its integral hotel in 1879. The station was extended to the south in 1898-1902. This shows the signal box at the east end of the station. This was situated in a triangle of rails, with two curves linking with the City of Glasgow Union Railway's line to the east of the station. This signal box was built when colour-light signalling was introduced in the 1930s, and was made of riveted steel. This station was built partly because the Glasgow and South Western formed a partnership with the Midland Railway to run Anglo-Scottish services via the Midland's Settle and Carlisle line. These services ended in the mid 1960s. St Enoch was demolished in the early 1970s and replaced by a shopping centre. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/31/10

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