St Enoch subway station is a station on the

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. It is located north of the

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city centre. Although it does not have direct interchange with the main line railway, it is located approximately halfway between

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and

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, within a few minutes' walk to both. The subway station is accessible via St Enoch Square. Usage of the entire subway in 2007/08 was 14.45 million passengers, increased from 13.14 million in 2005/06.

Original building

Former Glasgow Subway St Enoch station building

Above ground, the original 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,

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, late Victorian red sandstone structure; designed by James Miller in 1896. 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, during reconstruction of the subsurface platforms. St Enoch station entrance

The building was no longer used as a ticket office following the 1977-1980 modernisation; it became a travel information centre by SPT. The building became disused with the Travel Centre facilities being moved to the underground ticket hall in 2008. In December 2009, a

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coffee shop was established in the building. It is now protected as a

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. St Enoch includes a

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and escalator. Along with

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, it is one of two Glasgow Subway stations that is wheelchair accessible.

Refurbishment (2010s)

St Enoch subway station entrance September 2022

As part of the wider refurbishment of the city's subway, St Enoch station received new glass canopies for each entrance, and an overhaul of the ticket hall.

Past passenger numbers

* 2011/12: 1.857 million annually

References

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