Nightclub role for former Glasgow station?

THE former Cumberland

Street station in Glasgow, the first stop out of Glasgow St Enoch for passengers travelling to Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, could see the surviving structure turned into a live music venue, including recording studios, by promoters of the Gorbals regeneration project.

The red sandstone building at the junction of Cumberland St and Salisbury Street is Grade B listed and sits below two tracks of the former City Union line, which is used to move stock between Queen Street station and Corkerhill depot.

Some years ago there had been plans for the line to be part of the Glasgow Crossrail project which petered out, as well as a suggestion to repurpose the line to emulate New York’s High Line and use as an active travel corridor – even though it is still an active line.

The former station, which closed on February 14, 1966, was recently visited by Railway Heritage Trust executive director Andy Savage as part of a fact-finding mission that could unlock the potential of the disused station.

■ Our thanks for John Yellowlees for the information.

JOHN YELLOWLEES The façade of the Grade B building which dates from c1900. It had its name changed in the 1920s from Eglinton Street to Cumberland Street to avoid confusion with the Caledonian Railway’s Eglinton Street on the line out of Glasgow Central. A second station entrance at the opposite end of the platform at Eglinton Street and Wellcroft Place was demolished after closure.