Underground rapid transit line in Glasgow, Scotland
"Glasgow Underground" redirects here. For the record label, see Glasgow Underground Recordings.
Glasgow Subway Fo-thalamh Ghlaschu
Overview
Locale
Glasgow, Scotland
Transit type
Light metro
Number of lines
2
Number of stations
15
Annual ridership
8.0 million (2021/22)[1]
Website
Official website
Operation
Began operation
14 December 1896; 127 years ago (1896-12-14)
Operator(s)
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
Technical
System length
6+1⁄2 mi (10.5 km)
Track gauge
4 ft (1,219 mm) narrow gauge
Electrification
Third rail, 600 V DC
The Glasgow Subway is an underground light metro system in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened on 14 December 1896, it is the third-oldest underground rail transit system in Europe after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro.[2] It is also one of the very few railways in the world with a track running gauge of 4 ft (1,219 mm). Originally a cable railway, the subway was later electrified, but the double-track circular line was never expanded. The line was originally known as the Glasgow District Subway, and was thus the first mass transit system to be known as a "subway"; it was later renamed Glasgow Subway Railway. In 1936 it was renamed the Glasgow Underground. Despite this rebranding, many Glaswegians continued to refer to the network as "the Subway". In 2003, the name "Subway" was officially readopted by its operator, the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT).
The system is not the oldest underground railway in Glasgow: that distinction belongs to a three-mile (five-kilometre) section of the Glasgow City and District Railway opened in 1886, now part of the North Clyde Line of the suburban railway network, which runs in a tunnel under the city centre between High Street and west of Charing Cross. Another major section of underground suburban railway line in Glasgow is the Argyle Line, which was formerly part of the Glasgow Central Railway.
^"LRT0101: Passenger journeys on light rail and trams and undergrounds by system: Great Britain – annual from 1983/84" (downloadable .ods OpenDocument file). Department for Transport. 24 August 2022.
^"Glasgow Subway | SPT | Corporate Information | Strathclyde Partnership for Transport". www.spt.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
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