A little bit of Scottish history quietly slipped away

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1. Used to use it a lot when I was a kid in the 70s. Lived in Renfrew and went into the West end for piping lessons. Best way was to catch a bus in Yoker. You always heard about it slipping it’s chains and drifting down the Clyde.

2. You’d struggle to get away with describing that as a ferry

   Renfrew Rose & Yoker Swan are the ferries I used at that crossing growing up

   Ferry before that could take cars (and is not a nightclub further down the Clyde)

   The ferry was becoming increasingly unreliable

   It was either last year or the year before it was out of service for about 6 weeks while they sourced parts for a repair

   I’ve been stranded one side of the river when they decided to finish up early

   The storms a few months back put it out of service, the boat was fine but the water was too dangerous for it due to the amount of debris floating around

   The reality is the ferry has not been fit for purpose for a very long time

   Plus it was £3 per passenger one way!

   You’d be paying almost 20 quid for a family of 3 to use it both ways

   A bridge was well overdue

3. A brilliant wee ferry. I’ll miss it.

4. 1984? I thought the Clyde tunnel opened in in the early 60’s..I have distinct memories of being driven through it as a kid..

5. I’m just surprised there’s no Limmy comments.

6. I started cycling from Knightswood to Inchinnan for work shortly before the Renfrew Rose and Yoker Swan retired, and the company that replaced it were invaluable to me for many years.

   Definitely an End-of-an-Era moment.

7. Can’t imagine it was cost effective, but thanks for bringing to attention, really cool it was still going.

   Strange to mark the end of an almost 800 year old oractise

8. I remember going across on the car ferry when I was wee. I’ll need to check the bridge out some day.

9. 1396, impressive.

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