Glasgow queen street - one station or two?

[flatly]

Is Glasgow Queen Street one station or two? I note that for routing purposes it's always GQS, but on the trains themselves (real-time information things on the platform), they often differentiate between upper level and lower-level.

And of course phyiscally while in the same building they're very much separated barrier wise and to some degree entrance wise too.

 

[PHILIPE]

Is Glasgow Queen Street one station or two? I note that for routing purposes it's always GQS, but on the trains themselves (real-time information things on the platform), they often differentiate between upper level and lower-level.

And of course phyiscally while in the same building they're very much separated barrier wise and to some degree entrance wise too.

The platforms at both levels are numbered in one sequence. Tamwoth and Shotton High and Low Levels are now each one station on two levels.

 

[Kite159]

Is Glasgow Queen Street one station or two? I note that for routing purposes it's always GQS, but on the trains themselves (real-time information things on the platform), they often differentiate between upper level and lower-level.

And of course phyiscally while in the same building they're very much separated barrier wise and to some degree entrance wise too.

I believe you can access the lower level platforms from the upper-level platforms via a lift.

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

The High Level and Low Level stations will most likely have separate timetable planning locations - TIPLOCs - but this is simply for data purposes, such as TOPS. However it will enable the PIS to make a convenient differentiation between the two.

Reading is a single station with two TIPLOC codes; RDGSTN for the GWML part and RDG4AB for the Southern platforms 4-6. Yet the station is one location and is advertised as such.

 

[Carntyne]

It's one station with 9 platforms. Low Level has their own CRS code though, as done Glasgow Central LL ( GQL / GCL).

 

[urbophile]

Liverpool South Parkway has platforms 1-4 with their own barriers, and 5-6 with theirs, separated by many flights of stairs, a concourse, and a long corridor. It is effectively (and was once) two stations but of course they share one management and one ticket office.

 

[jopsuk]

It'll be managed as one station. .

For an extreme version, there's St Pancras International. The Thameslink, EMT, Southeastern and Eurostar "stations" are quite separate (eg to get from EMT to Southeastern, which are on the same level, in the same part of the building, you need to go downstairs, through the concourse and back up) yet it is still fairly clearly one station. Then the Underground there, shared with neighbouring Kings Cross, is pretty much two stations with three concourses- the deep level tube complex, and the low level subsurface lines

 

[DarloRich]

surely it is one station

 

[pdeaves]

Glasgow Queen Street is one station and has one station facility operator. Liverpool Lime Street, by way of contrast, is two separate stations with two SFOs (Network Rail and Merseyrail).

 

[matchmaker]

<trivia> The low level platforms 8 & 9 used to be numbered 10 & 11. It's only in fairly recent times that they were renumbered. The reason is that the low level used to have 4 platforms up until electrification. For some reason the remaining 2 low level platforms kept their original numbers for many years after that.

 

[Railsigns]

<trivia> The low level platforms 8 & 9 used to be numbered 10 & 11. It's only in fairly recent times that they were renumbered. The reason is that the low level used to have 4 platforms up until electrification.

Yes, but the High Level station used to have 9 platforms.

 

[47271]

Yes, but the High Level station used to have 9 platforms.

That's news to me, but very interesting - were the extras to the west of the present station, where the car park and BTP is now? Given the substantial wall to the north of the car park I've always assumed that the area was a parcels or goods depot rather than more passenger platforms?

 

[Railsigns]

That's news to me, but very interesting - were the extras to the west of the present station, where the car park and BTP is now?

They were on the east side, where the car park was until recently.

 

[47271]

They were on the east side, where the car park was until recently.

Exactly that, sorry, I was thinking east and typed west!

 

[me123]

<trivia> The low level platforms 8 & 9 used to be numbered 10 & 11. It's only in fairly recent times that they were renumbered. The reason is that the low level used to have 4 platforms up until electrification. For some reason the remaining 2 low level platforms kept their original numbers for many years after that.

They've been 8&9 since I've been using them, and my first trip to Glasgow on the train was about 20 years ago!

Would I be right in saying that the disused platform is still in place as the unused island? If so, then shouldn't the platforms have been numbered 8 and 11?