St Enoch Underground Station, Glasgow

This is the most distinctive of the Glasgow Underground stations. Designed by James Miller in 1896, it is an ornate Jacobean, late Victorian red sandstone structure. I remember when the "Clockwork Orange" was refurbished in the late 1970s, this building was jacked up and preserved, whilst the platforms below were replaced.

It was the original entrance to the subway, and since then has been a ticket office, the HQ of Underground Company, the SPT Travel Centre, and from February 2009 a Caffe Nero coffee house.

Q : Why do we call it the Clockwork Orange?
A : The subway track design is a circle - inner and outer - and the trains are painted orange.

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