Crossrail Glasgow

Crossrail Glasgow (formerly known as Glasgow Crossrail) is a proposed railway development in Central Scotland to connect the stations Glasgow Central and Queen Street. It has been estimated at a cost of £200 million.

Crossrail Glasgow
Proposed route
North Clyde Line
including Airdrie–Bathgate link
Bellgrove
City Union Line and Argyle Line
to north and east
High Street Curve
High Street (relocated)
to West Coast Main Line
Glasgow Cross (new)
Glasgow Cross (Argyle)
River Clyde
Glasgow South Western Line
to the South via Kilmarnock
Queen Street (Low Level)
Gorbals (new)
Central Station (High Level)
Charing Cross
Glasgow South Western Line
to the South via Kilmarnock
Glasgow Subway
anticlockwise
and Cathcart Circle Lines
 
West Street (Subway)
West Street (new)
turnback facility
Glasgow Subway
clockwise
Finnieston Junction
City Union Line
North Clyde Line and Argyle Line
Shields Junction
Paisley Canal line
Ayrshire Coast Line
and Inverclyde Line

Since the 1970s, it has been widely recognised that one of the main weaknesses of the railway network in Greater Glasgow is that rail services from the south (which would normally terminate at Central main line station) cannot bypass Glasgow city centre and join the northern railway network which terminates at Glasgow Queen Street station, and vice versa for trains coming from the north. At present, rail users who wish to travel across Glasgow have to disembark at either Central or Queen Street and traverse the city centre by foot, or by road.

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