Balfour Beatty has won a £16 million contract to carry out work on the Glasgow Queen Street station redevelopment project.

The contractor will deliver a package of enabling works ahead of platform 1 being extended to accommodate four-carriage trains.

To allow works to proceed, the staff accommodation block currently located on platform 1 and 2 will be demolished.

In addition, engineers will also be stripping out redundant structures within the station and building a new electrical sub-station for Glasgow Queen Street station.

Balfour Beatty will commence work on the new staff building in April with completion due in spring 2018.

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The work is being carried out as part of the Scottish Government-funded Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP).

To date, EGIP has successfully completed the £80m electrification of the Cumbernauld line, the £25m redevelopment of Edinburgh's Haymarket station and the completion of the new, £41m Edinburgh Gateway train-tram interchange.

Rodger Querns, Network Rail Infrastructure Projects programme director, said: "We will shortly be commencing enabling works at Glasgow Queen Street station to facilitate the extension of platform 1 and increase its capacity from three to four carriages.

"These works complement the wider activity happening at Queen Street as part of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme which will enhance capacity and improve reliability as well as reduce journey times on services between Scotland's two largest cities.

"We are fully committed to carrying out these enhancements as quickly as possible and with the minimum of inconvenience for passengers. Station access, as well as pedestrian routes through the North Hanover Street car park, will remain unchanged."

(LM/MH)