Filming for the series, understood to be called Flight 103, will take place across the city from Wednesday, February 28 until Sunday, March 3.
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, which was travelling from London to New York, exploded over Lockerbie killing all 259 passengers and crew and 11 of the town’s residents.
Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is so far the only person who has been convicted in relation to the bombing after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in 2001.
The new drama, from Carnival Films and Sky Studios, is told from the perspective of Jim and Jane Swire who lost their daughter Flora in the atrocity and is based on Jim’s book The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice.
Actor Colin Firth, who has been spotted on set in Linlithgow, will play him in the five-part series.
To accommodate filming for Flight 103 in Glasgow, a series of roads will be closed in the East End and city centre.
Closures will apply to all vehicles, except for emergency services or vehicles given permission from Glasgow City Council, and pedestrian movements will be restricted during scene ‘action’ for safety reasons.
The closures will be as follows;
From 6am on Wednesday, February 28 until 11pm on Thursday, February 29
Prohibition of waiting, loading and unloading
- Molendinar Street (for its full length)
From 11am until 11pm on Thursday, February 29
Prohibition of vehicle movements
- Molendinar Street (for its full length)
From 10.30am until 11pm on Thursday, February 29
Pedestrian movements stopped during ‘action’
- Molendinar Street (For its full length)
- Gallowgate (north side only, between Watson Street and Spoutmouth Street)
From 3pm on Friday, March 1 until 11pm on Tuesday, March 5
Prohibition of waiting, loading and unloading
- Cochrane Street (for its full length)
- South Frederick Street (for its full length)
From 3pm on Saturday, March 2 until 11pm on Sunday, March 3
Prohibition of waiting, loading and unloading
- George Street (between George Square and Montrose Street, excluding disabled parking bays)
- Montrose Street (between George Street and Ingram Street, excluding disabled parking bays)
From 6am to 11pm on Sunday, March 3
Prohibition of vehicle movements
- Cochrane Street (for its full length)
- John Street (between Ingram Street and Cochrane Street)
- Montrose Street (between George Street and Ingram Street)
- South Frederick Street (for its full length)
From 8am to 1pm on Sunday, March 3
Pedestrian movements stopped during ‘action’
- Cochrane Street (for its full length)
