{"id":632846,"date":"2025-12-14T23:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632846\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:47:23","slug":"glasgow-subway-turns-129-years-old-amid-major-route-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632846\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow Subway turns 129 years old amid major route upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Currently operated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/25384496.spt-seeks-head-service-delivery-transform-bus-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strathclyde Partnership for Transport<\/a> (SPT), the railway was constructed over five years by the Glasgow District Subway Company, at a cost of \u00a31.5 million.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, a crash on the Subway\u2019s opening day meant the 6.5 mile route did not reopen until January 1897.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>An archive photo from the Glasgow Subway. (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The railway was electrified in 1935 in a bid to save costs.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spt.co.uk\/125\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The SPT explains<\/a>: \u201cGlasgow saw a spectacular population growth throughout the 19th century as people came to the city for work, making it a priority to move people about the city as demand grew for a public transport system that was quick, good value and accessible to all.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe Subway was originally built for the Glasgow District Subway Company and operated as a cable-hauled system. It was the first of its type in the world with propulsion provided by stationary steam engines.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cNow part of Strathclyde Partnership for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/transport\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transport<\/a> (SPT), the Subway is currently undergoing a major \u00a3288 million modernisation programme. This will see new trains and a new signalling system in place, completely transforming the whole system.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In modern times, the Subway continues to upgrade, with new trains being installed throughout 2024 as part of a \u00a3288m upgrade.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read more:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crgedre0qexo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">At the time<\/a>, the SPT said that the two longest-serving trains, installed in 1980, had completed an estimated 2.6million miles &#8211; or 400,600 loops around Glasgow.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The SPT has also begun to install platform screen doors across the system in recent months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The new safety measures were recently rolled out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/23147492.glasgow-subway-minister-visits-new-trains-ahead-2023-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Govan Station<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The SPT said on Facebook: &#8220;You may have noticed that installation of the Platform Screen Doors has begun at Govan Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This is the next stage in our modernisation programme ahead of further testing of the new signalling and comms system.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Currently operated by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), the railway was constructed over five years by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-632846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115720594679915535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}