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Rail passengers in and around the Glasgow area, 2018–19. Glasgow has one of the densest heavy-rail networks in the United Kingdom outside London, with 186 stations across the Greater Glasgow area. The suburban railway is run by ScotRail, [6] and is centred around the two main terminus stations, Glasgow Central and Glasgow Queen Street stations.
The Glasgow Railway (formally, the Glasgow Railway Company, Inc.) is an American short-line railroad whose line runs from Park City to Glasgow, Kentucky.. Though independently owned by the Robert Lessenberry family of Glasgow, the line is operated under long-term lease by CSX Transportation, as corporate successor to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Glasgow Transit is the primary provider of mass transportation in Glasgow, Kentucky with one route serving the region. As of 2019, the system provided 8,075 rides over 3,023 annual vehicle revenue hours with 2 buses.
The Glasgow City and District Railway was a sub-surface railway line in Glasgow, Scotland, built to connect suburban routes east and west of the city, and to relieve congestion at the Queen Street terminus. Construction of the cut-and-cover route, only the fourth such in Great Britain, was formidably complex, but the line opened in 1886.
The lines were built by the Cathcart District Railway (Cathcart Circle) and the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway (Newton and Neilston lines). The first part opened on 1 March 1886 [1] as a double line from Glasgow Central to Mount Florida then single to Cathcart, doubled on 26 May 1886. [2]
The Maryhill Line is a suburban railway line linking central Glasgow and Anniesland via Maryhill in Scotland.It is part of the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport network. The line between Glasgow and Maryhill forms a part of the West Highland Line (linking the WHL and North Clyde Line with the former Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway main line out of Glasgow Queen Street High Level) and was ...
The Argyle Line is a suburban railway located in West Central Scotland. The line serves the commercial and shopping districts of Glasgow's central area, and connects towns from West Dunbartonshire to South Lanarkshire. Named for Glasgow's Argyle Street, the line uses the earlier cut-and-cover tunnel running beneath that thoroughfare.
The system is not the oldest underground railway in Glasgow: that distinction belongs to a three-mile (five-kilometre) section of the Glasgow City and District Railway opened in 1886, now part of the North Clyde Line of the suburban railway network, which runs in a tunnel under the city centre between High Street and west of Charing Cross.