Glasgow Central Station Tour

Fantastic, guide was enthusiastic and passionate while staying interesting and relevant.
Nice length of tour — 90 minutes or so.
You will learn all about the the incredible history of this enormous station, seeing the abandoned lines, sites from the great train robbery, impeccable feats of 20^th century engineering. Well worth it, even if you have no interest in trains.

I really wish i could give this tour 10 stars as it was amazing!
Our tour guide was vic and he was brilliant. He really brought the tour to life with his stories. I had no idea of some of the people that had passed through the station.
We didnt get up on the roof as it was january but we did catch a glimpse of the victorian platforms and i cant wait to go back and do the platforms tour once they have made it accessable.
Honestly for £10 you will not be dissapointed!

What a delightful way to appreciate a part of Glasgow that I’m guessing most people take for granted. I was already a huge fan of Glasgow Central Station, and getting to do the tour underneath the station is a really eye-​opening, educational and enjoyable experience.
I’d actually done the tour as part of Doors Open Day a couple of years back, which I thoroughly enjoyed and was really glad when they made these a permanent feature. Booking is straightforward through their website and it’s a very reasonable £10pp for an hour-​long tour (although ours went closer to two hours!).
You meet opposite M&S by the mobility station and get fitted out in hard hats and bright vests which I think is probably overkill but at least they won’t lose you during the tour. I don’t want to spoil any of it, but you’ll hear a bit about the architecture and design of the station, some amazing stories, lots of history and you’ll have lots of laughs along the way. The tour guides, Vic & Paul, are as interesting as the tour themselves and their long histories with the station make it even more amazing. Vic asked our group where people were from and he managed to tie nationalities back into stories later on in the tour which I thought was pretty special.
The tour does involve quite a bit of walking and you should wear comfy shoes and make sure you don’t have too much stuff with you so you can get around easily. I can’t pick one highlight of the tour as it’s all really interesting and enjoyable and presented in a passionate way. There are plans to expand the tour so that you can go down onto the Victorian platforms as well as having a special tour of the roof in the summer.

Epic? Full to the max of ‘choo choo’ awesomeness? Amazing Glesga history? In yer face patter that’s nothing like watter? Then this is the tour for you. (Bet you felt a little bit inside you to imagine pulling the whistle).
I have been wanting to go on this tour for many many years but it always fills up so quickly. So note, book up as soon as you can, way far in advance. Basically like booking a train going down south but you always end up missing out on those advance tickets. Has anyone ever managed to get them? Anyway off «track» there. Haw haw, see what I did.
Behold the group of very excited Unilocalers in the middle of the Glasgow Central concourse geared up and ready to embrace what was to lie ahead in our tour. We were greeted by our tour guide, Vic, nae Bob, just Vic but this guy didn’t need no side kick.
We were suited and booted with our fashionable Network Rail hi-​vis and safety helmet. I loved it, I felt like a pure engineer like. Ha, well kinda!
It was so interesting and the things that you will see and hear are unbelievable. I thoroughly enjoyed it and Vic was so knowledgeable, I loved his attention to detail especially with dates. His stories really brought the tour alive. I was a bit gutted we couldn’t get out on the roof as it was icy. He explained it was a bit catch 22, when it’s clear then the engineers like to get up and do repairs. Fair dos!
This was a really brilliant way to spend a few hours of your day. If you can book up soon as I promise you will not be disappointed. I thank Briony C. for managing to book it for us and hopefully later on in the year when they’ve added more to the tour we will go back and explore more of Central Station. Excited much!