Glasgow Central
Grand Victorian railway terminus with a vast glass-roofed concourse built over a vanished village.
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This guide to Glasgow Central station starts beneath the platforms, with Grahamston, a village of some two thousand people that stood here before the trains arrived in eighteen seventy-nine. It follows Alston Street, its pubs and an ill-starred Georgian theatre, and asks what the city tells itself about what lies underground. Best heard on the main concourse near the Gordon Street exit.
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