Queen Street Station, West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Train shed, bridge. 25 related planning applications.

Queen Street Station, West George Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
rough-foundation-nettle
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Train shed, bridge
Address
Queen Street Station, West George Street, Glasgow, G2 1AS
OS grid reference
NS 592 655
Coordinates
55.86247, -4.25119
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Queen Street Station, located on West George Street in Glasgow, was designed by James Carswell and built between 1878 and 1880 by P and W MacLellan. The station features a 10-bay engine shed with segmentally arched roofs covering six tracks and four platforms. It is supported by cast-iron columns, which have Corinthian capitals at the northern end and Bell-capital columns, holding up lattice beams beneath Cathedral Street. The overall structure has a delicate lattice arch that spans 250 feet in length and 78 feet in height, with sections glazed using corrugated iron panels.

The ends of the station are decorated with fan-glazed designs. To the south, southeast, and southwest, the station now adjoins modern office buildings.

Additionally, there is a bridge featuring wrought-iron lattice girders and parapets made of cast-iron basket-arched panels, separated by panelled columns that rise to latticed coping, allowing for vehicular traffic. The contractors for this project were Smith and Naysmith from Bellahouston Ironworks in Glasgow.

Local climate

Queen Street Station, West George Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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