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Can you tell me if there are any train information displays at a low level please, looking at the video this does not seem to be the case.
It depends on what you mean by “low”Can you tell me if there are any train information displays at a low level please, looking at the video this does not seem to be the case.
There’s a lower one in the waiting lounge but it’s not open yet as far as I know (though #NetworkRailGQS are not really announcing much at the moment).
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Our Dundas Street entrance will close at the end of service tonight, while we carry out more works to complete the entrance. It’ll reopen next Monday (31 August).
Please use our West George Street or George Square entrances in the meantime. #GQS @ScotRail
Regarding the webpage and the Twitter updates from Network Rail, I have noticed that they are using GQS to refer to Glasgow Queen Street. I believe that the three letter code for Glasgow Queen Street is actually GLQ, which was created by the very exact same organisation.
Given twitter is character limited in messages then abbreviating Glasgow Queen Street to GQS makes sense, its not pretending to be the internal station code which is what causes the anguish on here so don;t see an issue to be honest.
If their twitter handle was Network Rail GLQ they'd get more enquires about the name than anything else.
Our West George Street corner entrance will close tonight at the end of service until Monday 7 September. We’ll be carrying out work to complete the entrance area.
While it’s closed, please use our Dundas Street or George Square entrances.
As I’m not likely to be there for a bit, I extend the usual invitation for anyone who is working there or passing through to take some photos . I suspect at least some of the @NetworkRailGQS team are working from home and can’t just nip along from George House and grab a photo as of old.
Yeah, I think they missed a trick there.Shame the BR logo is unlit though.
It looks to me as though there’ll be no traditional ticket windows. Just the TVMs in a room. Perhaps there’ll be some sort of small staff operated machine at their positions out “on the floor”, or they’ll just assist people at the TVMs?... I have to admit that I'm struggling a little to visualize how the ticket office (I refuse to call it a "travel shop") windows will work and I'm not sure about the idea of keeping the pop-up retail units on the concourse. Time will tell though.
Same for signage outside Waverley. It would look so much better litYeah, I think they missed a trick there.
Don't forget the insanely overpriced WHSmith! No station or airport would be complete without such a wallet lightening establishment!Does anyone know what's going to happen with retail? Wasn't one of the original plans for there to be new retail outlets to replace the ones that were lost when they began the refurbishment work.
It'd be a shame if there is no retail outlets as a modern station which is being pushed as a hub doesn't have anything at all. Prior to refurbishment I believe it was a Wetherspoons just outside, a Burger King, a Costa and a Bonapartes.
Don't forget the insanely overpriced WHSmith! No station or airport would be complete without such a wallet lightening establishment!
It’s the Central Bar I miss. Cheap beer with a bite card, pool table & usually football on the TV. Decent enough view of the trains through what used to be the departure board windows.I miss the Bonapartes in Central Station as well. A leisurely pint or two on the balcony watching the bustle and trains was an agreeable inactivity. A window seat in the Queen Street one was OK too.