View from NW showing locomotive 46223 and carriages departing station
SC 795490
Description View from NW showing locomotive 46223 and carriages departing station
Date 25/9/1964
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 795490
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Train at St Enoch Station, Glasgow This view from the south-west was taken in May 1964 and shows the 5.30pm train for Carlisle via Dumfries leaving, headed by a an ex-London, Midland & Scottish Railway 8P 4-6-2 'Princess Coronation' class locomotive. To the right is a locomotive waiting to take a train out of the station. St Enoch Station was built on an undercroft, used for many years as a beer store. It closed in 1966, and its train services were transferred to Central Station. After a period of use as a car park was demolished in the early 1970s. The site is now the St Enoch shopping centre. St Enoch Station was built in 1870-9 for the Glasgow & South Western Railway as a city centre terminus of its Anglo-Scottish services operated jointly with the Midland Railway. It was extended to the south in 1898-1902. A temporary terminus at Dunlop Street was opened in 1870. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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