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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 ]
All three cars had been out of service awaiting repairs for some time before being officially withdrawn. [21] As withdrawal continued, scrapping of the cars commenced in April 2024. [22] 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]
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.
2011: Glasgow Subway modernisation works begin with refurbishment of Hillhead subway station. 2012: Rangers F.C. enters administration on 14 February and are later liquidated. [93] They reform and are voted into the Scottish Football League Third Division. [94] 2012: Glasgow hosts the preliminary football matches of the 2012 Summer Olympics. [95]
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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).
Springburn railway station serves the Springburn district of Glasgow, Scotland.The station is 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2.0 km) north of Glasgow Queen Street (High level) station on the Cumbernauld Line and is a terminus of the Springburn branch, a spur from Bellgrove station, on the North Clyde Line.
Partick is one of three subway stations on the SPT Subway line to benefit from mobile telephone service nodes, the others being Buchanan Street and Hillhead. These nodes allow users of the O2 cellular network to use their mobile telephones while waiting on a subway train. The idea was to trial the technology at the busiest stations and, if ...