Pub closes during train station’s£100mrevamp

A POPULAR Glasgow city centre pub has closed.

Camperdown Place, which is part of the UK-wide JD Wetherspoon chain, has a notice outside its doors at the front of Queen Street station confirming the closure.

The notice states: “Camperdown Place is now closed. “Thank you for your custom.” The closure comes after The Evening Times previously reported that the next phase of improvement works to Queen Street Station were given the go-ahead.

In March, we revealed that the Scottish Government had formally approved plans by Network Rail for the project to move to the next phase.

The work will see longer trains use Queen Street Station, which is one of the busiest in Glasgow.

The work will also lead to trains with greater capacity to ease overcrowding on key routes, including Glasgow to Edinburgh.

In addition, the front of Queen Street Station will be transformed as part of the plans.

The front of the commuter hub will feature an upgraded and extended concourse out towards George Square.

The new-look Queen Street will include a glass fronted station on to West George Street and George Square.

The demolition of Consort House office building and the extension of the Millennium Hotel are expected to take place to make way for the new front.

The Camperdown Place pub is also located next door to a Sainsbury’s supermarket which currently remains open.

The Evening Times made several attempts to contact JD Wetherspoon to confirm whether or not any staff were made redundant as a result of the closure.

The pub chain, however, did not confirm the status of the pub or its staff as we went to press.

JD Wetherspoon, however, has several Glasgow locations.

They are behind a number of public houses in the city centre, including The Counting House on St Vincent Place; The Society Room on West George Street; The Crystal Palace on Jamaica Street and The Sir John Moore on Argyle Street.

As part of the plans to redevelop Queen Street, work to lower the tunnel bed in the station and lengthen some platforms has already been carried out and the latest phase will redesign the concourse and link with Buchanan Galleries shopping centre.

The station project is expected to cost £100 million and be complete by the end of 2019.

Transport Scotland previously said the work would create a fully accessible, modern, transport facility.