A new series I want to try out a long side my Bus Stations & Every Station posts here on my blog! I’m currently visiting Glasgow and one of the things I love doing is riding the Glasgow Subway, the third oldest underground in the world, London being the first, Istanbul & Belgium all before it, however Belgium & Glasgow opened in the same year!

In 2023, SPT and the Subway introduced brand new Subway trains which I managed to get a ride on not long after they were introduced! The Subway trains they replaced have been in service for over 40 years and they did need replacing! However that said now they’re in servicing will admit it’s not the same as it used to be with the old Subway trains!

In the 1980s, the subway got a massive revamp and was closed for a few years whilst renovations took place! This was to help modernise the stations, widen the platforms and also rebuild a numbered the stations to allow for wider platforms and to ease overcrowding! This meant that the old island platforms were removed and altered or even widened at some stations again to ease overcrowding

For many years the iconic Subway trains went round and round in Circles bouncing up and down sometimes quite violently, I always found it rather uncomfortable but it was part of the nostalgia of the Subway! The new trains since having there wheels and bogies fixed have somewhat lost the bounce so it doesn’t have quite the same feeling as the old trains!

One thing that I really love about the Glasgow Subway is the smallness of it! The tunnels are a lot smaller than that of the London Underground (known as the Tube), the gauge of the track is 4ft where as standard running on the tube is 4ft 8 known as Standard Gauge. The trains are also rather small and not very tall so if you’re a tall person unlike me you will need to bow your head so you don’t hit it!

As you can see from the picture above, the old Subway trains were curved and rounded quite tightly to fit in the smaller tunnels. The old interior you can see quite detailed I. The picture above with the red chequered seating and ready orange flooring matches that of the outside of the train which used to be Red & Cream the original colours!

However in the 1970s the subway trains where repainted to Orange & Grey to match the theme of the subway and the line that they run on known as Inner (Grey on the Map) and Outer (Orange on the Map). With 15 stations on the subway you can’t get lost easily because if you do end up in the wrong place, just go back on your self again.

To wrap this post up, I’d like to share my final thoughts on the Subway and the service it provides. Although the service doesn’t lead to anywhere else in Glasgow it is quite good at connecting various places around the City Centre. For example you can jump on at St Enoch station head one stop on the Inner and your at Buchanan street, not far from Glasgow Queen Street & Buchanan Bus Station.

Kelvinbridge is another example of a busy populated area with housing near by it’s a cheap and reliable way to get to and from the city centre for all those shopping needs! When I stayed in Kelvinbridge I used the station most days whilst I was staying in Glasgow it was rather handy! Finally if you’ve enjoyed the post and want to see where I end up next feel free to Subscribe drop me a comment too!