{"id":480355,"date":"2026-03-17T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480355\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:24:08","slug":"glasgow-central-station-to-partially-reopen-after-huge-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480355\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow Central Station to partially reopen after huge blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Platforms seven to 15 on the west side of the station will be back in use from the start of services on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Network Rail said passengers would access the station via the low-level entrances and the Hope Street carriage driveway, which is normally used during special events and vehicular access. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be no access from the upper part of Central Station, including the Union Street, Gordon Street and upper Hope Street entrances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Facilities and shops in the station, including the main toilets, will be closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two disabled toilets &#8211; one with baby-change facilities &#8211; will be available and staff will be on site to direct passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Network Rail said most of the main concourse will not be accessible and screened off using solid metal sheeting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Services from the smaller low-level station, which runs services to Balloch and Milngavie in the west and Motherwell and Cumbernauld to the east, resumed last Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Platforms seven to 15 on the west side of the station will be back in use from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}