View from S showing Ayr and Clyde Coast trains at platforms

Description View from S showing Ayr and Clyde Coast trains at platforms

Date c. 1986

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

Catalogue Number SC 796378

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Central Station, Gordon Street, Glasgow, from south This shows platforms 12 (right) and 13 from the south, in about 1986. On the left is an electric train from the Clyde Coast lines, electrified in 1967, and on the right a diesel railcar set on an Ayr train, of a type introduced in 1958 and built at Swindon. The yellow panel covers a former corridor gangway. The electric train is a 'Blue Train' repainted with yellow ends to improve visibility to trackside workers. This part of central station was added in 1899-1905. The older part is on the right. Services to Ayr were electrified in 1987, and these diesel trains were then scrapped. The first, eastern, part of Central Station was opened in 1879 by the Caledonian Railway, and handled main line trains. The station was extended to the west in 1899-1905 to handle all the company's trains to the south and west. The layout was altered in the early 1960s and the 1879 bridge over the River Clyde abandoned. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT246

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