Interior View showing 1906 station extension

Description Interior View showing 1906 station extension

Date 1979

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

Catalogue Number SC 790661

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Central Station, Gordon Street, Glasgow, from south-south-west This view from the south-south-west, taken in 1979, shows part of the 1899-1906 extension, with its steel truss roof. On the right are the riveted steel columns supporting the west ends of the malleable iron roof trusses of the 1879 station. In the centre is the carriageway which served the main arrival platform. The extension and remodelling of Central Station created one of Britain's finest terminals. The designers were Donald Mathieson, engineer, and James Miller, architect. The original bridge was closed in the 1960s and has been dismantled. The building was completely refurbished in the 1990s. The first railway station on this site was opened in 1879 by the Caledonian Railway, primarily to handle its Anglo-Scottish services. An extension to the east, and a major new bridge over the River Clyde, were built between 1899 and 1906, allowing Bridge Street Station, rebuilt in 1890, to be closed. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH4

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