Queen Street station entrance, Glasgow City Centre

Resurfacing of the Queen Street Station entrance at night to meet client deadlines.

The project scope

Upgrade of 2000m² of existing footpaths, platform and carriageway around the main entrance of Glasgow Queen Street Station (Dundas Street, West George Street & George Square) in Glasgow city centre. The project involved:

• Attending client and local stakeholder site meetings
• Site surveys and marking out
• Site measure for materials
• Preparation of the surfacing schedule
• Full depth surfacing of existing footpaths (base, binder & surface course).
• Surfacing of existing platform area
• Surfacing of existing carriageway
• Installation of a raised table carriageway junction

Key quantities:

• Road resurfacing: 410 m²
• Footpath surfacing: 1,460 m²
• Platform surfacing: 130 m²

Challenges & successes

The project specification required the use of a new surfacing product using ‘rolled in’ white chippings. To ensure this was installed correctly first time, we conducted trials in a small area of the project.

The project was located in a busy part of the operational station in Glasgow city centre. This required us to keep two of the three entrances open at all times and also to resurface the road over the weekend during low traffic periods.