Hi does anyone know why Glasgow Queen Street was renamed as such? I cannot find any reference to a Queen Street on the National Library of Scotland's excellent website
Their is a vid on YouTube that says it was originally named Dundas Street station and was later renamed Queen Street.
But I haven’t found a date it changed. But clearly it is as close to (North) Queen St as Dundas St. Maybe a later company such as the NBR preferred the new name?The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Co obtained an Act of Parliament in 1838 and opened, in 1842 , a line between Glasgow Dundas Street Station (later re-named Queen Street) to Edinburgh Haymarket station, giving a swift direct passage between the two cities for the first time.
Records of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway Co, Scotland - Archives Hub
archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk
So whenever it changed, it’s fairly ancient history anyway...According to the vid Queen Street low level opened in 1886 with that name so the name changed for the upper part between the 1850s and 1886.
I think I’d rather believe Glasgow University archives, post #9 link...According to WIKI it has never been called anything else
Because Queen Street is about 200 yards south of the station?