Start of "Electric Scot" services to London Euston
5 November 1979
Reopening of Low Level Station as part of Argyle Line[2]
1984–1986
Refurbished
1998–2005
Refurbished
Passengers
2018/19
32.797 million
2019/20
32.465 million
2020/21
5.325 million
2021/22
15.322 million
2022/23
20.768 million
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road. Station usage figures saw a large decrease in 2020/21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Glasgow Central & St Enoch approaches
Legend
City of Glasgow
Union Railway
Glasgow Central
Glasgow Central Railway
St Enoch
River Clyde
parts of former station
reused as carriage sidings
Glasgow Bridge Street
Main Street
(CGUR)
Gorbals
Glasgow and Paisley
Joint Railway
Cumberland
Street
City of Glasgow
Union Railway
Southside
Eglinton Street
Polloc and Govan Railway
General Terminus and
Glasgow Harbour Railway
Pollokshields East
Cathcart District Railway
Pollokshields West
Strathbungo
Glasgow, Barrhead and
Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Cathcart District Railway
Glasgow Central (Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu Mheadhain), usually referred to in Scotland as just Central or Central Station, is one of two principal mainline rail terminals in Glasgow, Scotland. The railway station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 1 August 1879 and is one of 20 managed by Network Rail.[3] It is the northern terminus of the West Coast Main Line (397 miles or 639 kilometres north of London Euston).[4] As well as being Glasgow's principal inter-city terminus for services to England, Central also serves the southern suburbs of the Greater Glasgow conurbation, as well as the Ayrshire and Clyde coasts. The other main station in Glasgow is Glasgow Queen Street.
With just under 21 million passengers in 2022–2023, Glasgow Central is the seventeenth-busiest railway station in Britain and the busiest in Scotland.[5] According to Network Rail, over 38 million people use it annually, 80% of whom are passengers.[6] The station is protected as a category A listed building.[7]
In Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins, the station was one of only ten to be awarded five stars. In 2017, the station received a customer satisfaction score of 95.2%, the highest in the UK.[8]
^Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
^ abcdButt (1995), page 103
^"Commercial information" (PDF). Complete National Rail Timetable. London: Network Rail. May 2013. p. 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^Thomas (1971); Chapter VIII – Glasgow
^"Estimates of Station Usage 2011/12" (PDF). Office of Rail Regulation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
^"Footfall Figures" (PDF). Network Rail. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
^Historic Environment Scotland. "71, 97, 99 Gordon St, and 16, 18, 50 Hope St, Central Station & Hotel, (former Caledonian Railway Station)... (Category A Listed Building) (LB33029)". Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^Morrison, Richard. "Review: Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins". The Times. Archived from the original on 9 July 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
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