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Socceroo wrote:Anyone know if The Titfield Thunderbolt is on over the hols?
dazed_and_confused wrote:One thing that's always puzzled me though, is why it was decided to close St Enoch instead of Central? Fair enough, Central looks a much nicer station than St Enoch from what I've seen, and then of course there's the low level station too. But surely St Enoch was better sited to cope with cross Glasgow Travel, having lines heading north, east, and access to the same lines covered by Central already in place? It seems much more appealing to have kept it around?
Alycidon wrote:St Enoch had a few more problems, which were
1) No access route to the Cathcart Circle, Kirkhill or Neilston lines
james73 wrote:It was utter to folly to demolish this structure - simple as that. A 200+ bed
Victorian hotel building slap bang in the middle of your city centre and you
demolish it?? Look at the example of Manchester Central - now the
GMex - for how to put such a structure to good use, and that didn't even
have an attached hotel.
James H
escotregen wrote:Instead we would, in effect, degrade the public transport system by redirecting investment into the road and motorway system. Hence the whole knackered transport system we now have.
In these circumstances, the very suitability of St Enochs as a cross-city centre was probably a main factor in the decision to do away with it i.e. train-borne cross-city commuting was seen as 'redundant'.
crusty_bint wrote:So is the St Enoch clock stil in Cumbernauld?
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