TWO buildings are set to be demolished as part of major redevelopment work on a Glasgow train station.

The £120 million redevelopment of Glasgow Queen Street will now see redundant buildings in the front of station being removed.

Consort House and the Millennium Hotel extension buildings are currently being kept in a protective scaffold as part of the ongoing demolition works.

The next stage of the demolition process will involve dismantling the buildings after their power was disconnected and their interiors were stripped.

The two buildings will be removed to make way for the new station frontage, concourse and entrances and new longer platforms being delivered as part of the station’s new look.

The project, which is due for completion in 2020, will give passengers an expanded concourse with increased capacity and circulation space, improved customer facilities and a contemporary and distinctive building both internally and externally.

Contractor Balfour Beatty is carrying out the work to demolish the existing buildings and create the new station facility on behalf of Network Rail in a contract worth £60m.

Humza Yousaf, Minister for Transport and the Islands, said: “This next phase of the redevelopment of Glasgow Queen Street station, part of the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP), takes us a step closer to a fully accessible, modern, transport facility that better serves the needs of passengers and the city.

“It is a further example of our continued investment in the railway as we work with Network Rail and ScotRail to build the best railway Scotland has ever had.”