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Glasgow Queen Street ((スコットランド・ゲール語:Sràid na Banrighinn)) is a central Glasgow railway terminal in Glasgow, Scotland, the smaller of the city's two main line railway termini and the third busiest station in Scotland.〔( Office of Rail Regulation, Station Usage )〕 It is between George Street to the south and Cathedral Street Bridge to the north, at the northern end of Queen Street adjacent to George Square.〔(Google Maps listing ).〕 Queen Street station serves the Greater Glasgow conurbation's northern towns and suburbs, the Edinburgh shuttle, and is the terminus for all inter-city services to destinations in the North of Scotland. ==History== The station was built by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and opened on 18 February 1842.〔 In 1865 the E&GR was absorbed into the North British Railway, which became part of the LNER group in 1923. The climb through the tunnel to Cowlairs is at 1 in 42 and until 1909 trains were hauled up on a rope operated by a stationary engine, although experiments were carried out using banking engines in 1844–48. In 1928 there was a railway accident causing 3 fatalities when a train leaving the station slipped to a standstill and rolled back into another train. Modern diesel trains have no difficulty with the climb. The adjacent Buchanan Street station of the rival Caledonian Railway closed on 7 November 1966 as a result of the Beeching axe and its services to Stirling, Perth, Inverness, Dundee and Aberdeen transferred to Queen Street. This caused difficulties with longer trains, as Queen Street is in a confined position between George Square and the tunnel. In the 1980s, HST were used on Cross Country and East Coast services ran by InterCity, having to use Platform 7 with the end of the train being close to the tunnel mouth. Currently (2011), trains are usually of two to six coaches, running more frequently. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glasgow Queen Street railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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