Glasgow - 1930 by bus & tram Transport poster on postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  'Seeing Glasgow by Tram and Bus' 1938 poster
• Publisher:  Mayfair Cards of London
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• Notes / condition: tiny bumped corner 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The city of Glasgow, Scotland has a transport system encompassing air, rail, road, and an underground rail circuit. Prior to 1962, the city was also served by trams.

Glasgow is one of only three British metropolitan areas that has an underground metro system; the others being London and Tyne and Wear. The Glasgow Subway (previously Glasgow Underground), was built in 1896 and substantially modernised in 1977. It has a single circular route. This, taken together with the orange-coloured paintwork of the carriages, has led to it being known, by guidebooks more than the locals who still refer to it as the ""Subway"", as ""The Clockwork Orange"".

Despite being the third oldest subway system in the world (after London's and Budapest's), it has never been expanded beyond its original route. Reasons given for this have invariably related to Glasgow's geology: the tunnels are excavated from rock, and for this reason they are also smaller than London's. An SPT study into a possible expansion of the subway has been mooted. It would extend further into the West End, East End and Southside of the city which may cost up to £800million to build. Much of this expansion might utilise disused railway tunnels that have been abandoned since the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.

Deregulation of bus services began in October 1986, since that time bus operators have been able to start new services, change services, or cancel existing services by giving 42 days' notice to the relevant authorities; in Scotland this has since changed to 56 days notice with an additional 14 day consultation period over and above this. Operation of non commercial services that SPT deem to be socially necessary may be awarded by competitive tender.

A number of 'bus corridors' have been invested in by Glasgow City Council focusing on main bus routes with real time information, and bus priority measures. The Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive (GGPTE), formerly the municipal transport operator, is now privately owned by First Group.

The largest bus operators in the City are:

• First - (part of First Group) who are the successors to the former Glasgow Corporation Transport Department, and the former Central and Kelvin subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group.
• McGill's - The successors to the former Arriva Scotland West. McGill's took over on the 26th of March 2012.
• Stagecoach - The successors to the former Western subsidiary of the Scottish Bus Group, with their Stagecoach Glasgow company competing on several city routes.
• Glasgow Citybus - Independent company providing services in the North West Glasgow area.

Buchanan Bus Station is owned and run by SPT, and is a terminus for both local and long-distance services

Glasgow had for many years an extensive system of trams that ran on the city's streets alongside other traffic. However, by the 1950s much of the vehicle stock was over 30 years old and in need of replacement. The trams were becoming less used as car use increased and gradually the tram network was phased out across the city, including many routes that were still fairly well used and reckoned to be economically viable. The last tram in the city ran on September 4, 1962 with as many as 250,000 people reckoned to have lined the streets to watch this spectacle.

In the mid 1990s there emerged a plan to create a Strathclyde Tram Project, which would have seen the reintroduction of trams to Glasgow. Strathclyde Passenger Transport published a set of plans for this system, going so far as to distribute pamphlets across the city outlining these plans and the proposed routes they were suggesting. The initial line proposed was a 20-kilometre route that would run from Maryhill in the Northwest of the city to Easterhouse on Glasgow's Eastern fringe. It was envisaged that the line would utilise disused railway lines and tunnels as well as running in part on some roads in the city alongside other traffic. The plan then outlined future expansion of the tram network so that it might one day stretch across the Greater Glasgow area.

However, there were a number of objections to these proposals, contentiously amongst them was an objection from Strathclyde Bus Holdings, who it could be argued did so out of fear of their profit margins being affected by such an initiative. This necessitated a public inquiry which lasted around 10 weeks. The Parliamentary Commissioners appointed to deliberate on the matter met and discussed the conclusions of this inquiry in a matter of hours before finding in favour of the objections raised thus killing off the Strathclyde Tram Project. The reasoning of the Commissioners is unknown as there existed no obligation from them to reveal it.^[1]

There currently exists a proposal to reintroduce trams (again, as in 1996, this would actually be a light rail system) to Glasgow. This comes in light of similar proposals, which are much further advanced, to reintroduce trams to Edinburgh.^[2] The City of Glasgow Council and SPT have commissioned a £500,000 study to see the viability of such a system which it is reckoned would initially operate from the city centre out to the new Glasgow Harbour site then across the River Clyde to the Southern General Hospital and through Govan and along the south bank of the Clyde before crossing the river again back into the city centre. There are proposals to run trams further than this route out to the Braehead shopping centre and possibly Glasgow Airport; to Clydebank; and across the rest of the city.

Presently SPT has decided that this route will not see trams running along it, but rather an ""ultra-modern"" bus service termed ""Clyde Fastlink"" will operate part of the route, running from the city centre to the Glasgow Harbour area.^[3] SPT have stated however that they are leaving open the option of laying tram lines on this route and replacing the buses with a light rail system.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=scotland

county/ country=lanarkshire/ glasgow

transportation type=buses

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted