Demolition work is underway to clear space for the new Glasgow Queen Street station.

Balfour Beatty has started levelling Consort House and the adjoining Millennium Hotel extension to make way for the new station frontage, concourse and entrances as well as new longer platforms as part of the station's redevelopment.

Over the coming months, three specialist light-weight excavators will break up the building's reinforced concrete and steel frame floor-by-floor. Protective scaffolding erected around Consort House will limit any dust and noise pollution escaping into the surrounding city.


Once finished, the redevelopment project 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.

Rodger Querns, Network Rail programme director, said: "We are using a unique method to demolish these redundant structures in a way that will limit the impact of our work on both passengers and nearby properties.

"The removal of Consort House and the hotel extension will create the space we need to transform Glasgow Queen Street, constructing a new landmark building for the city and delivering much improved facilities for passengers."

(LM)