Day 283: Glasgow Grand Central Station Hotel

 

 

Central Station, the main train hub of Glasgow was opened by Caledonian Railways

in 1879 with the neighbouring Central Hotel opening just 4 years later.

The hotel was designed by Scottish architect

Robert Rowand Anderson in Queen Anne style.

 

The world's first long-distance television pictures were transmitted

to the Central Hotel in the station, on 24 May 1927 by John Logie Baird.  

 

The hotel was sold by British Rail in the 1980s, and passed through the hands of

various private operators until its most recent owner, the Real Hotel Group,

 went into administration in February 2009, and the hotel subsequently

closed amid concerns of asbestos contamination and structural deterioration. 

 In June 2009, a new company acquired the hotel building, and planned to

 refurbish and rebrand it as the Glasgow Grand Central Hotel.  

The refurbished hotel re-opened in September 2010.