Crossrail Glasgow

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Proposed route
North Clyde Line including Airdrie–Bathgate link Bellgrove City Union Line and Argyle Line to north and east High Street Curve High Street (relocated) to West Coast Main Line Glasgow Cross (new) Glasgow Cross (Argyle) River Clyde Glasgow South Western Line to the South via Kilmarnock Queen Street (Low Level) Gorbals (new) Central Station (High Level) Charing Cross Glasgow South Western Line to the South via Kilmarnock Glasgow Subway anticlockwise and Cathcart Circle Lines   West Street (Subway) West Street (new) turnback facility Glasgow Subway clockwise Finnieston Junction City Union Line North Clyde Line and Argyle Line Shields Junction Paisley Canal line Ayrshire Coast Line and Inverclyde Line

Crossrail Glasgow (formerly known as Glasgow Crossrail) is a proposed railway development in Central Scotland to connect the stations Glasgow Central and Queen Street.^[1][2] It has been estimated at a cost of £200 million.^[2][3]

Since the 1970s, it has been widely recognised that one of the main weaknesses of the railway network in Greater Glasgow is that rail services from the south (which would normally terminate at Central main line station) cannot bypass Glasgow city centre and join the northern railway network which terminates at Glasgow Queen Street station, and vice versa for trains coming from the north. At present, rail users who wish to travel across Glasgow have to disembark at either Central or Queen Street and traverse the city centre by foot, or by road.