St Enoch subway station
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St Enoch subway station is the first station on the north of the River Clyde on the Glasgow Subway. It is located in Glasgow city centre, Scotland. Although it does not have direct interchange with the main line railway, it is located approximately halfway between Glasgow Central station and Argyle Street railway station, within a few moments walk to both.
Above ground, the station building housed both a booking office and the headquarters of the original Glasgow District Subway Railway Company. This was (and is) the Subway's most distinctive building - an ornate, late Victorian red sandstone structure. It still stands - it was carefully preserved during the modernisation of the Subway in 1977, even being jacked up in the air for a while to allow reconstruction of the subsurface platforms. It is no longer used as the ticket office, it is now used as a travel centre (with access to the new subterranean ticket office via external escalators).
The adjacent former St Enoch mainline station remained opened until 1966. Thereafter it was used as a car park until the St Enoch shopping centre was built on the same site.
| Preceding station | Glasgow Subway | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchanan Street | Glasgow Subway | Bridge Street | ||
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