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Upon withdrawal car 128 was preserved by Glasgow's Riverside Museum, owners of three First Generation subway cars. 128 was moved on display during June 2024. [ 23 ] The final day of operation for the second generation stock was June 28 2024 with cars 106, 207 and 120 performing the final service for inner, And 119, 203 and 103 performing the ...
The Glasgow Subway is an underground light metro system in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened on 14 December 1896, it is the third-oldest underground rail transit system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro. [2] It is also one of the very few railways in the world with a track running gauge of 4 ft (1,219 mm).
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) is a regional transport partnership for the Strathclyde area of western Scotland.It is responsible for planning and coordinating regional transport, especially the public transport system in the area, including responsibility for operating the Glasgow Subway, the third-oldest in the world.
The Glasgow Subway is an underground rail service in Scotland that serves the city of Glasgow. The Subway is the second-oldest underground rail service in Great Britain, first place is the London Underground. The system comprises one circular line, with fifteen stations and two sets of rail that operate in alternative directions (Outer Circle ...
Glasgow's Subway is one of the four underground urban rail networks in the UK (the others being in London, Newcastle and Liverpool). Edinburgh has a tramway to and from the airport. On 1 January 2006, Transport Scotland was established, which would oversee the regulation of railways in Scotland and administer major rail projects. [10]
Glasgow has a well developed network of park and ride sites operated by SPT [7] or Scotrail. These exist at railway and subway stations across the greater Glasgow area. The Glasgow Subway has three park and ride sites with a total of 1,109 spaces with at least 10,000 further spaces spread out across the local rail network.
The Glasgow subway opened in 1896 and was renovated with the well-known orange carriages in the 1970s. They were officially introduced to passenger service on 16 April 1980.
Close to Buchanan Bus Station and providing interchange with Glasgow Queen Street railway station via a travelator, it is the busiest station on the Subway, with 2.54 million passengers in the 12 months ending 31 March 2005. [9] When built in 1896 the station had a single island platform serving both tracks.