Glasgow, Cowlairs Incline, Railway Tunnel
Railway Tunnel (19th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, Cowlairs Incline, Railway Tunnel
Classification Railway Tunnel (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) High Level Tunnel; Queen Street Station Tunnel; Cowlairs Tunnel
Canmore ID 103559
Site Number NS56NE 1866.02
NGR NS 5927 6577
NGR Description NS 5927 6577 to NS 5963 6662
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/103559
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS56NE 1866.02 5927 6577 to 5963 6662
Formerly entered as NS56NE 209 at cited locations NS 5945 6619, and NS 5927 6577 to NT 5963 6662.
For air shafts at NS 59434 66148 (Calgary St) and NS 59324 65884 (Cowcaddens Road), see NS56NE 1866.03 and NS56NE 1866.04 respectively.
Completed 1842 for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rly. A double track tunnel on a 1 in 46 gradient, with a single ventilation point at Calgary St. At the Queen St (SSW) end the tunnel mouth was set back when the station (NS56NE 76.00) was enlarged in 1878-80, but the other (NNE) is as built.
J R Hume 1974.
This tunnel was worked as a rope-worked incline (latterly with the assistance of steam banking engines operating uphill) between 1842 and 1908.
C Johnston and J R Hume 1979.
Only the N end of the tunnel is still as built in 1842; the S end was cut back in 1878-80. A double-track tunnel on a 1-in-46 gradient with a single ventilation point, it starts just W of Pinkston Road, Springburn.
E Williamson, A Riches and M Higgs 1990.
The tunnel portion of the incline passes beneath the M8 urban motorway at NS 5952 6636 and beneath the approach Buchanan Street Station (NS56NE 59.00) at NS 5950 6630, immediately SW of the SW portal of the tunnel NS56NE 2931.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 February 2006.
