New Glasgow Subway Trains Now In Service 

Hey Stuart! A pleasure sir, likewise. Always happy to chat and and talk trains! 😊

We all owe Geoff a thank you for inspiring us all 😊😊😊

You met the great man himself? I'm jealous !!

How yous guys feel about driverless? sorry to bring it up... but i was wondering.

​@geofftech2 when are u going.to see the new avanti trains

I was unreasonably excited when I ended up getting a new train for my journey! Was bizarre not being deafened

@@formercrow5242 Hopefully the novelty lasts for a while! Quite enjoy it, especially the audible sharp intake of breath when it pulls up to the platform.

I didn't enjoy it!! I felt when the new train is slowing down at each platform the brakes mean they don't slow down smoothly, it's like when you're on a bus and the driver keeps pressing the brakes and you're rocking, it made me feel sick. Old ones better. Unless it was just the driver I got

Was the same for me for ages but over last 2 weeks been much more seen

There seemed to be a lot of them about a month or two ago, but they’ve since disappeared again.

they have only 2 stations???

​@@ArltratloI think they mean there are only 2 wheelchair accessible stations

@@kittecat963 so he got only 2 stations!

@@Arltratlo Better than none at all. I remember old men dragging themselves along the ground with their bare knuckles in the 70s because they had lost their legs in the war.

@@iant9461 my uncle got paralyzed in the war, he lived in a small village, got a motor 3 wheeler to get around... i cant remember if i ever talked to my aunt, she been a very quiet woman! looks like the Brits didnt cared for their war invalids!

Would be nice to showcase them at the Riverside Transport Museum

They’re only 44-ish years old, the old Clockwork Oranges as we called them!

@@Richardincancaleno one ever actually calls it that in person 😂

@@barrivianaw it was jst the subway clockwork orange is more a promotional / tourist name

I'd be surprised if they didn't retain at least one set for museum duty. That's generally what happens with these kind of things.

that was my intent, so thank you for noticing!!

The BBC showing a good story from Scotland!?!? Lol...

You should try some of the Scandinavian ones (Copenhagen, Stockholm). I’ve lived in Glasgow and in Denmark and the metro there is so much futuristic, clean and efficient than here. Trains come no more than every 2-3 mins, it runs driverless 24/7 and it has trains you can actually stand up in!

@@user-wo5ts8lc9k The cleanest metro I've been on was Bilbao in the Basque Country. I think I saw half a croissant on the floor and that was about it.

its in the UK.... i think we two will see clean as different as possible... i been to Switzerland, i been to the UK... make a guess, which of the 2 countries are clean and which one is an eye sore!

​@@Arltratlo That's rude. Look, I get your point, but you failed to mention the huge population gap between Switzerland and the UK. With more people, keeping things 'clean' becomes tougher. The biggest 'city' in Switzerland is like a medium sized town in England. In Scotland, Glasgow has a population (full time residents not commuters) of 635,000, nearly 6 times the volume of Lausanne, on top of that the population in British cities swells with commuters so that takes it up into way more then the 6x mark. This is of course not even mentioning London which has a population approaching 10 million people and clears well over that with commuters and tourist (more then the entire swiss population). As is always the case, each country has its own strengths and challenges, if you aren't going to at least be civil when discussing other people's nations then honestly keep your opinions to yourself because frankly, you sound stupid and your grammar is terrible, sincerely a Brit/Scot.

Athens is immaculate.

Yes it still verry low

I live in galsgow and they are small

Yeah, was just gonnae say: wear yer helmet

@gwaptiva the warning should say "wear a helmet or hit ya head

Me 5'3" .... what do you mean? 😂

Thank you! Most kind 😊

Always enjoy the videos. well done Geoff. Lots of interesting facts

You Finns, you crushed my dreams, I took the Elizabeth line for the first time going to Helsinki and was about to be all impressed by our new line and then Helsinki airport station went and blew it all away by being unfairly awesome.

Hope you enjoy! I can't make any promises for the weather I'm afraid...

The Nuremberg U Bahn is too! Only one in germany

Copenhagen Metro has platform screen doors though. Not sure how they could add that into the Glasgow subway and it seems like a hard requirement for a driverless system. I'll be impressed, in any case, if they manage to make it work with the narrow, curved platforms.

@@liamness curve platforms isn't a problem, lots of curve platforms on the Elizabeth line, it just means the doors have to be custom built for that platform, that feasible for a small network like that, doing it for the whole of the underground would cost billions.

South Island Line in Hong Kong. Those trains don't even have drivers' cabs and passengers can stand next to the windows on either end of the trains!

@@liamness The nuremberg metro doesn't have platform doors even on their driverless lines. So it's not really a hard requirement, it's just the much better solution. Nuremberg employs light beams along the platform edge that would detect if something above a certain size would fall into the track and automatically stop a train in front of the platform.

1973 stock isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

I wish metro cammell got bought up as they had fantastic designs

Yes, some Scottish accents are about as thick as some American accents.

@@julianshepherd2038 the subtitling system decided "brakes" are "Brinks" and "new trains" are " nutrients"😂😂😂

i can understand most accents but the moment you blast it through a train speaker / airport tanoy its all french to me even my own accent

Ngl, but that's quite a soft accent at the very least for greater Glasgow, but then also I've lived in or near Glasgow my whole life as well

As an German, it's usually easy for me to understand english. But in this case... Jesus. Would be totally lost in Glasgow.

Mind yer heid !

Anyone who refers to the subway as the “Clockwork Orange” clearly isn’t Glaswegian!

@@MrPaulFCockburn Oh...........

@@MrPaulFCockburnvery obviously it was one guy in the 70s

The major population centres should at the very least, like Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds etc. I'd love a subway network around Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds all linked up with our own "Crossrail" heavy commuter line like the Liz line that connects them all up. Imagine the transformation such a network would have on the region? The whole country needs and deserves this kind of investment. The wider economy would absolutely boom if they did this even in just one of these population centres outside of London.

@@TalesOfWar i think manchester for the most part is okay with metro link and the trams

I could only understand half of what Gordon was saying 😮

The guy from Edinburgh was probably English, everyone else who lives there is!!

Autogenerated subtitles often cause more confusion!

Don't watch Taggart then.

He has a great accent.

Get some practice in by watching some of Stanley Baxter's old Parliamo Glasgow sketches which are now on RU-vid.🙄

​@@stephengallagher8002there's been a muurrdddeerr ;)

Not needed as Glasgow has such a large overground network with over 150 stations. To put things into perspective, Edinburgh has less than 10 train stations.

@@BisChrisamson MAybe we should build a subway in Edinburgh then!

When I first moved her I woukd sonetines get mixed up, did I come in to town in the inner or the outer? Which one is the right way home? Doesn’t matter

Aye, but you can get stuck somewhere you don't want to be if you get the last subway the wrong way....Govan rather than Cessnock.

4th I think? There's two different types of train in the Transport Museum plus the old and new ones currently in service. And on the old ones, the middle carriages are newer than the end carriages.

The museum has two versions of the original carriages. One restored to the way they looked when they were cable operated, and one as they appeared towards the end of their career.

​@katrinabryce , nope definitely only the 3rd set as the original sets from 1894 ran continuously right up to the closure and the redevelopment in the late 70s early 80s. The reason for the redevelopment was due to the age of the trains as they were struggling to keep the trains running due to their age and lack of spares. Yes there were upgrades from when it changed from the pulley system to electrification ie the gate doors changed to fully enclosed auto door but it was still the same carriages.

That's astonishing!

@@katrinabryce No, it is the third, as the original cable hauled trains were modified to electric in the 1930s, and then soldiered on until the 1970s, when the whole system was closed for a few years for a complete reconstruction, at which point the stock that's currently being replaced was introduced.

It's only been 130 years tbf

bro it’s been a subway ever since it was introduced lol

Glasgow in Scotland has a metro population of almost 2 million people.

Thanks for keeping the trains running and lowering the car dependency in Glasgow.

hey Calum!!! lovely to meet you. Polmadie video soon ...

nice to meet you too!! :-)