Work is continuing on the £120 million redevelopment of Glasgow Queen Street.

The next phase of the scheme is scheduled to begin in October, which involves demolishing the Consort House and the Millennium Hotel extension buildings.

Engineers have been working to prepare the structures for removal since spring, disconnecting power supplies and other services and stripping out the interiors. The two buildings are being removed to make way for the new station frontage, concourse and entrances and new longer platforms.

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Contractor Balfour Beatty is carrying out the work to demolish the existing buildings and create the new station facility in a contract worth £60m.

Transport Minister Humza Yousaf said: "This next phase of the redevelopment of Glasgow Queen Street station, part of the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP), takes us a step closer to a fully accessible, modern, transport facility that better serves the needs of passengers and the city.

"It is a further example of our continued investment in the railway as we work with Network Rail and ScotRail to build the best railway Scotland has ever had."

The project, which is scheduled for completion in 2020, will give passengers an expanded concourse with increased capacity and circulation space, improved customer facilities and a contemporary and distinctive building both internally and externally.

(LM/MH)