Reminder of road closure for Anniesland station access project: Anniesland Accessibility project

Friday 14 Jun 2024

Reminder of road closure for Anniesland station access project

Region & Route:Scotland’s Railway: Scotland [1]

Network Rail is reminding those living, working and travelling through Anniesland Cross that lift towers are being installed at the railway station this weekend. Engineers will be completing the main installation work overnight. From 18:30 on Saturday 15 June until 10:00 on Sunday 16 June, five lanes of Great Western Road will be closed to traffic to accommodate the three cranes needed to lift in the steelwork safely.

A diversionary route will be in place for traffic travelling towards Glasgow while the work takes place and there will be one lane available for traffic travelling west. There will be no change for station users who should still follow the footpath diversions during the road closure. Pedestrian access on the southbound footpath will remain open.

The lift towers will stand 12 metres tall, with steel walkways connecting the upper towers to the existing station platforms. This will make it easier to use the station for those with mobility difficulties, and people travelling with bicycles, pushchairs or heavy luggage.

Notes to Editors

Great Western Road will be reduced to one westbound lane from 18:30 on Saturday 15 June until 10:00 on Sunday 16 June whilst the steel lift towers are craned into place. A signed diversion via Kelvindale will be in place for eastbound traffic towards Glasgow.

The diversionary route for eastbound traffic will be via Bearsden Road, Temple Road, Dalsholm Road, Cleveden Road and Dorchester Avenue. The footpath underneath the railway bridge, parking bays, and the inside eastbound lane of Great Western Road will remain closed for the duration of the project.

About Network Rail

We own, operate and develop Britain’s railway infrastructure; that’s 20,000 miles of track [2], 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts [3] and the thousands of signals [4], level crossings and stations. We run 20 of the UK’s largest stations [5] while all the others, over 2,500, are run by the country’s train operating companies [6].

Usually, there are almost five million journeys made in the UK and over 600 freight trains run on the network. People depend on Britain’s railway for their daily commute, to visit friends and loved ones and to get them home safe every day. Our role is to deliver a safe and reliable railway [7], so we carefully manage and deliver thousands of projects every year that form part of the multi-billion pound Railway Upgrade Plan [8], to grow and expand the nation’s railway network to respond to the tremendous growth and demand the railway has experienced – a doubling of passenger journeys over the past 20 years.

References

^ Scotland’s Railway: Scotland (www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk)
^ track (www.networkrail.co.uk)
^ bridges, tunnels and viaducts (www.networkrail.co.uk)
^ signals (www.networkrail.co.uk)
^ stations (www.networkrail.co.uk)
^ train operating companies (www.networkrail.co.uk)
^ a safe and reliable railway (www.networkrail.co.uk)
^ multi-billion pound Railway Upgrade Plan (www.networkrail.co.uk)
^ @networkrail (twitter.com)
^ http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/ (www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk)