A £112m tender has been issued for the rebuild of the Glasgow Queen Street railway station, which is due for completion by 2019.
The third busiest station in Scotland is expanding to meet the predicted 28 million passengers that will pass through it a year by 2030, up from the current 20 million.
As part of the £742m Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP) the station’s platforms also need to be extended to accommodate longer trains.
Glasgow Queen Street station
The scope of the project will include:
- · 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.
Phil Verster, managing director of the ScotRail Alliance, said: ‘This is another tremendously exciting step forward in our plans to transform Scotland’s railway. We recently announced our largest ever Train Improvement Plan, which will deliver new trains, thousands of extra seats and great facilities such as at-seat power points and enhanced Wi-Fi across our fleet.
‘We are confirming that one of our busiest and most important stations will also be transformed, making it larger and with much better facilities for our growing number of customers.’
