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Buchanan Street station is a former railway station in Glasgow.Less well known than the city's other terminus stations – Central, Queen Street and St Enoch – it was situated in the Cowcaddens district to the north-west of Queen Street station and served the north of Scotland.
Close to Buchanan Bus Station and providing interchange with Glasgow Queen Street railway station via a travelator, it is the busiest station on the Subway, with 2.54 million passengers in the 12 months ending 31 March 2005. [9] When built in 1896 the station had a single island platform serving both tracks.
Buchanan Street railway station; C. Calderpark Halt railway station; College railway station (Scotland) Cowlairs railway station; Crow Road railway station;
Buchanan Street subway station, a subway station also in Glasgow. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about railway and public transport stations with the same name.
The original Western Club building in Buchanan Street, Glasgow. At the start of the street where it meets Argyle Street and St Enoch Square the historic Argyll Arcade [10] [11] which opened in 1827 with sixty-three shops and is now the oldest Victorian shopping centre in Britain, and its near neighbour award-winning Princes Square indoor mall face across to the stores which make up the iconic ...
The original routing over the Wishaw and Coltness and the Glasgow Garnkirk and Coatbridge lines was now by-passed for main line passenger traffic, although still in use for local passenger traffic and considerable mineral usage. The Buchanan Street terminal was now focussed on passenger services to the Stirling line.
Under this scheme, only the low-level Queen Street Station would be kept, as part of the suburban rail system, and a new purpose-built Glasgow North Station would be constructed on the site of Buchanan Street station. This plan was never followed through, and Queen Street operates to this day, although Buchanan Street station closed in the 1960s.
It was opened in 1896 and was also marginally the closest Subway stop to the main line railway at Buchanan Street railway station which was closed in 1967. Like many of the original Subway stations, the surface entrance was part of the shop unit of a tenement building.