The BRAND NEW Glasgow Subway Trains in Service. 

I didnt think it was possible to smell a video but as a Glaswegian I instantly got the subway smell as soon as you showed the platform. I look forward to a ride on the new trains.

The Glasgow subway is unique being the only one of its kind. It is much better now that it has been updated. It had got very run down and outdated and was threatened with closure, but I am sure that its future is assured. Although the headroom is limited, the smaller scale reduced the cost of construction, so in that way it is cool. Thanks for uploading.

I live in Telford and love trains but now I have an excuse to drive up to Glasgow to ride the subway. Those trains look gorgeous and futuristic, and match some of the stations aesthetically. Thanks for the upload sir! 😁

The new trains look great and the walk through cars are a good idea , perhaps they should have an announcement that says "please give up your seat for a tall person to sit down " ha ha.

The reason for the lack of headroom is that the diameter of the tunnels is quite small meaning trains have to be smaller to fit.

I have wanted to go ride on Glasgow’s tiny pint sized metro, and I gotta say the new trains look great! I struggle for headroom on the deep level tube stock as it is, so I’m guessing these even smaller trains are an even tighter fit lol

The Glasgow Subway: the only full-scale toy train! Heard there used to be a toy monorail you could pay to ride somewhere in Germany, but I also heard that's gone after a real bad accident.

haha the glasgow metro is so cute. tiny trains, tiny platforms, tiny tunnels. I love it

I remember from my childhood the proper Subway trains in Glasgow, which were wonderful, wooden, and would rattle from side to side - literally the walls moving - but I think the smell is still exactly the same

Was waiting for the new trains to enter service, and here we finally are! I also heard a report that it is possible for these new trains to be automated.

I wonder if the door times can or will be adjusted. I think the real quirk is having the same old dusty cassette tape voice doing the announcement 😅

Been wanting a reason to revisit Glasgow. Looks like I will be at some point in the new year now

I must say the new stock looks very nice. Nicer than than the new Piccadilly stock .

Finally went on these new trains for the first time. Really liking them (will miss the old trains though)

The Clockwork Orange 🧡 Old meets new rolling stock ,Love Glasgow ❤

I've been on these trains. They look so futuristic

@2:30 they cant increase the height of the inside of the train due to the TINY MICROSCOPICALLY & HALARIOUSLY SMALL TRACK GAUGE that the Glasgow's subway hilariously uses, hence the low head room. the trains look absolutely incredible: & for glasgow: The Future, is here.

Thank-you Nicola sturgeon

i love how everyone is taking pictures

I was born and brought up in London and I loved our tube, it was the only way to travel around London. One day I will get to Glasgow because I would love to go on your Underground railway.

New trains look good, nice report

Nice to see the new Glasgow Subway trains now operating on the Subway and to replace the existing trains. Looks so futuristic as it’s been built by Stadler. Perhaps Stadler should build new London Underground tube trains for the Bakerloo Line to replace the 1972 Stock.

Interesting new underground service for the Glasgow Underground rolling stock, every interesting video indeed. Excellent. Well, it shall be interesting to see how well this service runs. Thanks for sharing this. Take care. From Foxy.

Thanks David - brilliant video - you're SO CLOSE to 1000 subs!!! (I'm 991)

New Glasgow, underground train I can’t wait to go for a get on 1 I can’t believe it has been more than 40 years since Glasgow has had a new underground train that just shows you all the ones I’ve been and great service

I am going on them this weekend very excited!

The alarm and delay on the doors opening is pretty odd - I hope they change that, as it’s just a bit of an annoyance. Other than that they look great, and as good as ever going to be feasible given the loading gauge.

All those friendly folk of Glasgow wanting to be a part of the video 😊

Coming out the tunnel, it reminds me of the Space 1999 Moonbase Alpha Travel Tubes. 🙂

Will be interesting to see any works towards automation/screen doors, possibly the first fully automated service in the UK!

Good informative video, thanks for doing that

Great share, thanks :)

thanks mr um

I never realised there were different coloured platform stripes depending on the direction of travel. That's very cool. Almost like it's two separate lines that happen to 100% share tracks and yet never encounter each other.

I remember seeing pictures of a newly discovered subterranean microscopic creature and With that black front end and white body, they look exactly like one!

Thank you

It’s about damn time

I love the old trains but i'm sad I've missed the first run of these

Pretty nice

The sample of the 2024 rolling stock for use to replace the aging 50 years old 1973 rolling stock in Piccadilly Line and probably their 1972 rolling stock in Bakerloo line.

The light bars on the side of the doors remind me of the ones on the azur trains here in Montreal (although our doors sometimes open before the train comes to a stop)

Nice place.Hope to visit your place someday

I’m 6ft 4 and this looks scary. The NYC subway is cozy for tall ppl

Good to see that someone is thinking realistically, summers in the UK and Scotland are going to get gradually hotter unfortunately but the inclusion of fully functional Air conditioning system is a very welcome feature on board the new Subway trains.

NFC tickets ! WOW ! Awesome. ! Much Love. !

Was gonna ride and also film one today, got there about 13:55 at buchanan st got a train to st enoch waited ages no new trains waited until i saw the same train i got there on and decided to head to glasgow central to get a barrhead train. Gonna go back tomorrow to see if i can find one of the 2024 trains

I live in Glasgow I’ll probably get a new ride on it soon!

It's kind of crazy to me with such narrow platforms that there are no safeguards/doors on the edges of the platform.

Great Video David. They 100% did keep this quiet but they really do look good.

Hi David - I’m Irish myself, living in Manchester 21 years and have been fascinated by Glasgow’s metro system for a long time - from what little I know about this line, it resembles the Circle Line Tube in London and I’d love to see the DART Underground for Dublin taking shape - one thing that I do like about these trains is that there is enough room to carry a heavy suitcase on board (level boarding?) and I don’t know how similar they are to Edinburgh’s trams for disabled access to the island platforms - aside from the Metrolink Trams here in Manchester and the current London Tube Trains, it compares well to the DART Trains and the LUAS Trams in Dublin - does the Glasgow Metro get very busy at peak hours? And what major bus/tram/rail connections is it close to? Does it have good interchange points within Glasgow City Centre?

Brilliant video

Will still be known as the Clockwork Orange

Glade I'm not he only one, I was in Glasgow the same day not knowing anything about it, and I was on the subway as well without knowing, bit surprised at that.

Finally!! 🎉

I don't remember having much headroom room in the current subway trains either (I'm 6ft 2)

When they go driverless someone has to do a cab view ride

I'm glad now that I was in Glasgow in November. It was nice to have a last ride on the old trains as I couldn't even remember them from my last visit (20+ years ago). These look OK but a bit generic - as far as a quirkily sized mini-metro can BE generic of course.

Was recommended this video. Gonna have a butchers through your older content

The headroom in these carriages would seem enormous by comparison with the disused goods tunnel trains in London - virtually a miniature underground system ! 🤭

This system reminds me of the Sydney Metro , but with one MAJOR difference ; a section of the Sydney Metro tunnel was built to accommodate double decker trains for the first decade of its existence. After watching the video a second time , I also noticed that the Glasgow train carriages still have partial divisions between them , whereas in Sydney , the couplings are completely unobstructed . As the Metro is approaching a station , there is an automated announcement , for example " We will be stopping at Castle Hill " , which is more informative than a tone . Lastly , on the subject of annoying sounds , I recently traveled on an interurban train from Sydney to Lithgow ( Blue Mountains ) , and before EVERY stop ,as part of the station announcement was "Please mind the gap between the train and the platform " , by the guard ( live not automated ) . It is NOT necessary to say this for every station and common sense should dictate that not all stations have serious platform gaps , the worst I noticed was about 12 inches , but most were less than 4 inches . Constant repetition of the same message becomes very irritating during the course of a two and a half hour trip each way , and should be reserved for situations where it is actually needed , because passengers will tend to ignore them and the next time I intend to use such a service , I will take ear plugs ! I don't blame the train guard for this , but railway policy . Those passengers who listen to music through earphones have the right idea ! 👍

exactly what I thought to see. Is it much quieter from inside now, right? Looks like it runs quieter from outside too. And starts faster

I really think they should introduce contactless debit card payments at the barrier and have Platform Screen Doors (PSDs) for added safety due to the narrowness of the platforms.

awesome videos man! loving this content! 🔥 as a person interested in development, transport, metros, etc especially ours, scottish thanks so much, and; loving your modernist, helvetica user image! : ) p.s; i think, given the retisance (sp?) of GCC to tunneling, i think the best way to expand the subway is to have "El's" like some areas of american cities (which glasgow very much feels like), Elevate subway lines follwing the glasgow grid road system by riding along above them to the areas of interest, "East End", "Souuthside", then go back underground for all of those but yeah by making much of the core network elevated it makes it *muuch* easier, : ) p.p.s; loved and subbed ;)

Been down the subway several times , still only seen one new train.. going the opposite way 😂

Very nice new trains. How many are these new trains going to be in service and to replace the existing ones that are getting old and are to be scrapped.

Nice to hear the native Glaswegian bird squealing and the end

now all we're waiting for is the new picadilly line ;-)

Wow, nice... but it take a long time... I was visitor on the innotrans 2018, where the first train-set was presented....

These subway trains are incredibly cute. I mean now that we've got the new subway trains its about time they expand the system or make the entirety of the stations accessible to wheelchair users.

Those are sexy trains.

Actually, it's easier and more proficient to implement driverless operation on the Glasgow Subway than on the London Underground due to several reasons: - The Glasgow Subway is a very small network of only 15 stations and its platform layouts are mostly straight unlike the London Underground, so platform doors can be installed for such operations. Not to mention, it's signalling sysyem is pretty simple compared to most huge rail networks. - While the London Underground may have already introduced new Picadilly line trains that have the potential to be driverless, driverless operations are extremely unlikely due to being a huge network, a complex signalling system, the curved layout of numerous platforms makes it challenging to install platform doors, and various others. Even if driverless operation can be implemented, the cabs needed to remain with the driver doing other tasks inside for safety purposes (GoA3).

They look pretty nice. Shame they aren't tardises. haha. Well done for beating Mr Marshall to it! I guess it helps to be local :)

I did not know that Glasgow had a subway lol

Regarding the headroom, how does it compare with the older trains? Even though limited by the tunnel diameter (as previous correspondents have pointed out), the internal construction can affect headroom if the mouldings protrude. It is over 50 years since I last rode on the Subway. I think that I still prefer the design of the older trains, but I am not a Glaswegian so my personal views do not really count. Anyway, I enjoyed your video. Merry Christmas.🎄🎄🎄🎄

It feels as good as the Piccadilly line new train

A good design. It's pretty much equivalent to the new stockholm subway trains. Both look futuristic, but the glasgow tunnels are older and pipe shaped so the trains have to be round (i like it tho)

As an Albertan with 50% Scottish roots this has never made me want to book a flight back across the pond MORE than this announcement. The coolest subway system in the world just beat London to the punch for the most futuristic subway in the UK! Other than the DLR and Elizabeth lines, perhaps... But those aren't real subways.. They are automated light metro's and semi-automated suburban rail respectively if I'm not mistaken!

Is that a new moquette ? Love the reference to Geoff.

I wonder if there is any other subway system that only goes around in a circle.

Now that's a Tube

Shame they weren't operating when I tried to ride them.

I saw two new trains last Monday, but I didn't see them on Tuesday or Wednesday.

The new trains are indergoing driver facilitation on the Tyne & Wear Metro for our new Alstrom trains

Look great but wish they were still predominately orange. I remember when the previous ones were at the design stage and loved them.

squeezed London overground in a tube )))

Did you compare the headroom to the old trains? Is there less headroom on the new ones?

Things i hate about the new rolling stock is there is no announcement if there is it sounds like conductor making it. Like we need clear announcement bruh.

Does anyone know how the Glasgow Subway trains speed an acceleration compares to say a deep level Tube (London Underground) such as the Jubilee line?

It's time to say farewell to the real metro feel

These trains remind of the central line trains, the central line trains need something like this

The front lights of these trains look like katana blades

OMG I thought it was going to be realised on 2025

I forget always that you have traffic on the left. Also the trains

lovely trains but that alarm before the doors open is bloody horrible

Do they have a automatic next station announcement system?

where is the motor sound?

Are the new set out every day from now on

Who is the manufacturer of these trains? I love subways my time line on subways is; Toronto Glasgow London NYC Moscow Montreal (sort of) The Glasgow subways have a unique aroma.

Looks a well kept system ,the new trains being walk through look bigger even though headroom but on the tube I’ve hit my nut a few times 😂,sub surface no props ,all the best Looks great 😊😊

Interesting video, is Glasgow quite a nice friendly city compared to English cities? Never been