Glasgow Queen Street is Scotland’s third busiest station, with 20 million passengers a year, but needs to be expanded to cope with a predicted 28 million passengers by 2030.
The station’s platforms and concourse also need to be extended to accommodate the faster and longer electric trains being introduced to Scotland’s railway as part of the £742m Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP).
According to the programme, the contract will be awarded in autumn 2016. The Queen Street station redevelopment is scheduled for completion in 2019.
The scope of the project includes:
- demolition of the Millennium Hotel’s 1970s extension above the station
- demolition of Consort House
- removal of the canopy over the footway in Dundas Street
- redevelopment of the station concourse, south and west façades, including reconstruction and extension of station buildings
- improved station entrances at Dundas Street and George Square
- new lighting and public address systems
- new ticket office and staff accommodation block
- construction of extended platforms to accommodate eight-car trains.
Rodger Querns, programme director for the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme, said: “This is further good progress in the delivery of EGIP. We have already successfully completed a number of key elements of EGIP including the electrification of the Cumbernauld line and Haymarket station and are on the ground across the Edinburgh-Glasgow railway preparing the line for electrification and building Edinburgh Gateway Interchange at Gogar, where we are also making good progress.
“We look forward to delivering this challenging, but exciting project that will realise huge improvements for passengers.”
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