AS part of Glasgow Queen Street station’s redevelopment, work will begin next week on a project to prepare for the extension of platform one.
A £16 million contract has been issued to Balfour Beatty who will deliver a package of enabling works ahead of the platform being lengthened to accommodate four-carriage trains.
To enable the extension, the staff accommodation block currently located on platform one and two needs to be demolished. The facilities within this block will be relocated to a new staff building on the North Hanover Street side of the station to allow the demolition.
Rodger Querns, Network Rail Infrastructure Projects programme director, said: “These works complement the wider activity happening at Queen Street as part of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme.”
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