NETWORK rail are today testing the chime of the famous clock in Glasgow Central Station.

Commuters will be able to hear the chime every hour and now Network Rail is asking whether they should bring it back.

Taking to social media, the firm said: "Great to hear our old clock chime again for the first time in many years. Should we bring the old lady back to life?"

One social media user said: "Yes! Love a good #WestminsterChime."

Another added: "It's rang for the workers, the lover's and those who left but never made it back..... So an Absolute YES from me."

Another continued: "Yes bring back too life it part of Central

Station and part it's history."

Our Eye Spy Glasgow series previously reported that the station was built in the 1870s, with the concourse and booking hall completed in 1882 - the height of the fashionable Victorian era.

It is full of architectural niceties. The roof is a "ridge and furrow" design and the ornate pillars at the Gordon Street entrance are stunning.

But the clock suspended from the roof is probably the most noticeable and popular feature.

It has, over the decades, served as Glasgow's number one rendezvous point.

Soldiers have waved farewell to their sweethearts as they left the station to fight in two world wars.

There have been royal visits and the annual summer departure of thousands of Glaswegians heading "Doon the Watter" on holiday.

Celebrities have passed under the clock, many making their way to the station's Grand Central Hotel.

Laurel and Hardy passed through, as did David Soul of Starsky and Hutch fame, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrived by train in 2011.

The original four-faced clock, which was 15ft high with elegant  wooden framework and a lead-sheathed cupola, was replaced in 1962 but it proved unpopular.

A replica of the original was put in place in 1992 and remains a favourite to this day.