Queen St Station Quarry

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Re: Queen St Station Quarry

Postby k_stewa » Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:29 am

Mori wrote:
Hi Kim

The map you can aquire from http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/ and the image you can get from rcahms

Hope this helps. :D


Hi Mori,

That's brilliant!

Many thanks,
Kim
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Re: Queen St Station Quarry

Postby Mori » Fri Jun 28, 2013 2:32 pm

k_stewa wrote:
Mori wrote:
Hi Kim

The map you can aquire from http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/ and the image you can get from rcahms

Hope this helps. :D


Hi Mori,

That's brilliant!

Many thanks,
Kim


No Bother, remember and post up a link to your short film. :D
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Re: Queen St Station Quarry

Postby sandabound » Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:55 pm

I remember a night shift when the surveyors were doing the prep work for Buchanan Galleries etc, we were on the up line at Queen St low level, (the side for the Airdrie/Springburn branch) the engineers took a 5" core out from the Q St to Charring x tunnel wall, shone a torch in then said fur fk sake !

Turns out it was hollow behind the wall, a vast area of absolutely hee haw, so they took the whole sandstone block out & we shone our torches & headlamps in, the beams of which hit nothing in the huge void, very spooky
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Re: Queen St Station Quarry

Postby The Egg Man » Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:40 pm

The cost of improving rail travel between Glasgow and Edinburgh has risen by more than £90 million due largely to an expanded redevelopment of Queen Street Station, the transport minister has announced.

Contracts have been awarded for the Edinburgh to Glasgow improvement programme (Egip), which has risen in cost from £650 million to £741.5 million.

Much of the extra money will be spent lengthening platforms at Queen Street to meet passenger demand with longer trains and integrate the station with Buchanan Galleries shopping centre.

Egip was announced in 2009 to improve reliability, capacity and journey times between Scotland's two biggest cities.

The Queen Street redevelopment, which has more than doubled in price from £49 million to £120 million, is not expected to contribute to cutting journey times but will add to the "accessibility and ambiance" of the station and wider public realm, according to a full business case by consultants Ernst & Young.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/u/ra ... 1390835891
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