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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]
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 clockwise; Inner Circle anticlockwise).
Like many of the original Subway stations, the surface entrance was part of the shop unit of a tenement building. After Cowcaddens was declared a Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) in the 1960s, mass demolition of tenement slums and other surrounding buildings took place, and by 1972 the station entrance was the only structure left standing ...
St Enoch subway station is a station on the Glasgow Subway in Scotland.It is located north of the River Clyde in Glasgow city centre. Although it does not have direct interchange with the main line railway, it is located approximately halfway between Glasgow Central railway station and Argyle Street railway station, within a few minutes' walk to both.
First testing on the subway took place on 5 December 2021, [32] which involved a test run to Govan Station and recovery by a depot locomotive due to struggles to fit the rolling stock in the existing infrastructure. [32] The trains entered service on 11 December 2023, [33] initially running on weekday afternoons only. The trains entered full ...
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The Partick subway station is not wheelchair accessible. The only two Glasgow Subway stations with wheelchair access are Govan and St Enoch, both of which feature a lift and escalator. Aside from Govan and St Enoch, Partick is the only Glasgow Subway station that includes an escalator. [12] [19]
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