20 tonnes (19.7 long tons; 22.0 short tons) per car
Electric system(s)
600 V DC third rail
Current collector(s)
Contact shoe
Track gauge
4 ft (1,219 mm) narrow gauge
The Glasgow Subway rolling stock serves the Glasgow Subway, the third-oldest underground metro system in the world. The Subway is currently on the third generation of rolling stock, which entered service on 11 December 2023.[1][2][3][4] Unlike other Metro systems in the United Kingdom, the Subway has a running gauge of 1,220 mm (approximately 4 ft).[5][6]
^Cite error: The named reference 2018-scotsman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference 2016-spt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference 2016-re was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference 2016-bbc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Glasgow Subway Rolling Stock – a Freedom of Information request to Strathclyde Partnership for Transport". 21 June 2016. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
^"'Confrontational' talks as Glasgow Subway driverless trains delayed to 2022". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
and 27 Related for: Glasgow Subway rolling stock information
The GlasgowSubwayrollingstock serves the GlasgowSubway, the third-oldest underground metro system in the world. The Subway is currently on the third...
The GlasgowSubway is an underground light metro system in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened on 14 December 1896, it is the third-oldest underground rail transit...
or the 81 years of the first-generation GlasgowSubwayrollingstock between 1896 and 1977. "RollingStock Data Sheet, London Underground (First Edition)"...
system's infrastructure and rollingstock was virtually unchanged from its opening in 1896, and improvement to the subway was seen by the GGPTE as an...
This is a list of companies that manufactured railroad cars and other rollingstock. Most of these companies built both passenger and freight equipment...
Metro. Upcoming orders include the under construction driverless GlasgowSubwayrollingstock, the Class 777 electric multiple units for suburban Merseyrail...
responsibility for operating the GlasgowSubway, the third-oldest in the world. The principal predecessor to SPT was the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive...
Govan subway station is a station serving the area of Govan in Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the south side of the River Clyde. Just to the south...
Buchanan Street subway station is a station on the GlasgowSubway in Scotland. It serves the major shopping thoroughfare of Buchanan Street, and is one...
transit rollingstock fitted with air conditioning, such as the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad K-series cars from 1958, the New York City Subway R38 and...
physical feelers mounted on rollingstock. More recently, laser beams are used. The loading gauge is the maximum size of rollingstock. It is distinct from the...
railway in Glasgow, opened as the Glasgow City & District Railway in 1886 and predating the GlasgowSubway by some ten years. Like most of Glasgow's suburban...
2005 began the renovation process of subway trains. As part of the modernization, the soviet-era rollingstock was overhauled, old parts were replaced...
opened. TMB rollingstock Series 500 Series 2100 Series 4000 Series 5000 Series 6000 Series 7000 Series 8000 Series 9000 FGC rollingstock Series 112 Series...
preserved at the Seashore Trolley Museum. The 10.4 kilometres (6.5 mi) GlasgowSubway in Scotland opened the same year and used cable haulage until it was...
systems using the Hallidie patents continued to be designed, such as the GlasgowSubway which opened in 1896. The solution adopted was electrical power, provided...
underground tramway (regular rollingstock going underground in the city center, nowadays described as a "premetro", "Stadtbahn" or "subway-surface") and a "true"...
and tram systems, among them the historic London Underground and the GlasgowSubway. There are also many private railways, some of them narrow-gauge, which...
million; Running between Glasgow Central to Glasgow Airport via Paisley Gilmour Street railway station using tram-train rollingstock. Personal Rapid Transit...
opened in October 2007. Since 2022, Line B is automated with new MPL 16 rollingstock ordered to Alstom in 2016. The MPL 75 trains previously used on Line...
rollingstock by "batch" for Line 1 and "generation" for Lines 2 and 3 because ISAP and AMEL used different classification systems for rollingstock before...
Argyle Line (in conjunction with the inauguration of the modernised GlasgowSubway), with services commencing four days later. This joint venture between...
Ibrox stations is now used as a test track and storage facility for subwayrollingstock. Butt, page 32 Butt, page 126 "RST Raise Ibrox Rail Link Issue"....
a new side platform opening in December 2022. Some stations of the GlasgowSubway have one island platform and one side platform (Hillhead, Buchanan Street...
"Baby Grands". Glasgow had also rejected an earlier offer from London Transport for its surplus E3 type tramcars. Some of the rollingstock was preserved...