12 . Glasgow Business June 2015
Building developments Transport improvements
Disruption on train line to capital
Rail travel between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley is being disrupted over the summer months as part of the major Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme.
The changes are being
made to ready the line for the introduction of what ScotRail describes as cleaner, greener and quieter electric trains from December 2016. The work means diverted
trains and replacement buses on the service, resulting in longer journey times. The main work is taking
place on the Winchburgh Tunnel, a section of track between the Edinburgh Haymarket and Linlithgow stations. Disruption due to work on this section of the line is expected to last from 13 June to 26 July. Passengers travelling from
Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High will be advised to catch trains from Queen Street Low Level via Airdrie and Bathgate. An alternative will be to travel from Glasgow Central instead and catch a train via either Shotts or Motherwell. This means that passengers who usually travel on these routes will find that trains are much busier than normal during the period of the disruption and they may not get on the first train. Those travelling during that
period are advised to allow a much greater time for their journeys there and back. The aim is that, once
the work is complete, the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme will produce a 20 per cent reduction in journey times and 30 per cent more capacity within four years as well as more comfortable journeys.
T
he north of Glasgow city centre is seeing major changes with a range of new developments that
are being completed over the next few months. A giant crane is framed against
the skyline as it works on the City of Glasgow Campus located at Cathedral Street at what is being called the Allan Glen’s campus, named aſter the historic school at the site. Work on the city centre
building is expected to be completed in summer 2016. Te Buchanan Galleries car
park has closed to allow the major expansion of the shopping centre to go ahead. A new car park will be opened in 2017 when the new £400 million extended shopping complex is completed. Developers have suggested
that drivers who have used the 2,000-space Buchanan Galleries car park should use the nearby Concert
Renewable energy exhibition and conference All-Energy 2015 pulls out all the stops
All-Energy, the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference, proved it could pull out all the stops, thanks to its move to Glasgow. It enjoyed a record-
breaking attendance of around 8,250 from more
than 50 countries on 6-7 May at the Scottish
Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC).
It is the 15th show.
Past events had been held in Aberdeen, with attendance at All-Energy 2014 being 6,875. All-Energy will
return to Glasgow on Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 May 2016.
Square car park or alternative ones in the city centre. Te National Teatre of
Scotland is to develop a disused building in Craighall Road, in the Speirs Wharf regeneration area of the north of the city. Te canal-side building will
provide the company and the wider theatre sector in Scotland with a major resource with around 3,700 square metres of space over two levels.
Shape of Glasgow skyline set to change
»Developments to transform north of city centre
An artist’s impression of the redeveloped Buchanan Galleries
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