Looking down from St Vincent Crescent onto the former Caledonian lineĪgain from St Vincent Crescent looking down to the current train line, To the south of here it used to join the line at the Stobcross Junction below ground, roughly where the current Exhibition Centre train station is today, on the Partick to Anderston/Central Station line. If you were to wander into it today, you would travel under the length of Kelvingrove Park and Kelvingrove Street and emerge south of St Vincent Crescent briefly.Īs you can see below the old Caledonian line you will have been following is here crossed by the live line between Partick and Charing Cross stations (the relative height of the two lines has changed over time) before it then enters another tunnel. The tunnel underneath Kelvingrove Park is now soundly locked up but this tunnel and the one underneath Yorkhill were common venues for illegal raves in the 1990s. However as time goes on, more of these lines are being built upon, making their re-appearance increasingly unlikely. Since then several once closed old lines and stations in Glasgow have been re-opened and the idea of re-using some of the old underground tunnels has often been floated as a way to improve our transport links. In Glasgow this led to the closure of many lines and stations, including the large St Enoch and Buchanan Street stations. The most dramatic fall was in the 1960s with the swingeing Beeching cuts to the rail network. With competing companies often duplicating routes and with the rise and fall of various industries the number of lines and stations in Glasgow has gone up and down. Much of this was fed by the growth of various industries, with passenger services and freight lines serving stations for eg Dawsholm Gasworks, iron works in Possil and Maryhill or the Clydeside shipyards. More train routes in Glasgow emerged as the city grew. Train - The first train lines in Glasgow were built to deliver coal to the growing city and its industries.There is still a great affection for the old trams in Glasgow, although at present you need to go to the Riverside Museum to see them now, or to Summerlee Museum in Coatbridge if you want a short hurl in one. All that's left now of the old tram network are a few supports for overhead electrical cables on the side of tenements here and there and scraps of tracks in the odd un-tarmacked stretch of road. I would love to see it being a great success, as the other recent tram line proposals in Glasgow (between Maryhill and Easterhouse and along the Clydeside to the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital) have come to nothing. Proposals have been put forward to build a new tram-train link between Glasgow Airport and the city centre. By the 1960s it was decided that cars and diesel engined buses were the future and the last tram ran in the city in 1962. Glasgow was ahead of the game here too, with over 100 miles of tram lines in the city by 1922, carrying over 1000 trams. Edinburgh seems alone in managing to make a complete hash of installing one, which should not act as a deterrent to other cities' plans.
Tram - Many cities in the north of England run efficient, modern tram systems.
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