Ex-Vatican guide recruited to provide Italian boost to acclaimed Glasgow Central Station tours

Tracks ready to be laid to enhance ‘Victorian platform’ tour highlight with steam locomotive

The huge success of behind the scenes tours at Scotland’s busiest station has prompted the recruitment of a former Vatican tour guide to provide an Italian language version for tourists and the many Scots-Italians north of the Border, The Scotsman has learned.The move comes as Glasgow Central is gearing up for track to be laid in an abandoned tunnel in the bowels of the station to enhance the highlight of the tours. It would pave the way for an historic steam locomotive to help recreate a Victorian-era station platform underground.

A third guide has been added for the acclaimed tours, which have attracted more than 100,000 people, to serve the Italian market. Flavia Burroni, from Rome, said “Glasgow was my dream” after she first visited Scotland seven years ago.