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Thursday 30 Mar 2017

Glasgow Queen Street on track for platform extension works

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As part of Glasgow Queen Street station’s redevelopment, work will begin next week on a project to prepare for the extension of platform 1.

A £16m contract has been issued to Balfour Beatty who will deliver a package of enabling works ahead of the platform being lengthened to accommodate four-carriage trains.

To enable the platform extension, the staff accommodation block currently located on platform 1 and 2 needs to be demolished.

The facilities within this block will be relocated to a new staff building on the North Hanover Street side of the station to allow the demolition.

Balfour Beatty will commence work on the new staff building in April with completion due in spring 2018.

Engineers will also be stripping out redundant structures within the station at this time and building a new electrical sub-station for Glasgow Queen Street station.

The work is part of the Scottish Government-funded Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme.

EGIP is delivering a rolling programme of electrification across the central belt – reducing journey times and increasing capacity on routes by improving the infrastructure to enable faster, longer and greener electric trains to run.

When complete, EGIP will reduce journey times on the Glasgow-Edinburgh, via Falkirk High, route by around 10 minutes and increase the number of seats available to passengers.

Rodger Querns, Network Rail Infrastructure Projects programme director, said: “We will shortly be commencing enabling works at Glasgow Queen Street station to facilitate the extension of platform 1 and increase its capacity from three to four carriages.

“These works complement the wider activity happening at Queen Street as part of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme which will enhance capacity and improve reliability as well as reduce journey times on services between Scotland’s two largest cities.

“We are fully committed to carrying out these enhancements as quickly as possible and with the minimum of inconvenience for passengers. Station access, as well as pedestrian routes through the North Hanover Street car park, will remain unchanged.”

These works are separate to the ongoing TAWS process for the wider redevelopment of Glasgow Queen Street.

To date, EGIP has successfully completed the £80m electrification of the Cumbernauld line, the £25m redevelopment of Edinburgh’s Haymarket station and the completion of the new, £41m Edinburgh Gateway train-tram interchange.

For further information on EGIP, visit www.egip.info or follow @NetworkRailEGIP.