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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:32 am
by George
when I was a lad... I used to get a short back and sides at 'dicks mens hairdressers' on Dumbarton road ( there is a pic of the facade somewhere on here )...however, I hastled my mother to allow me to get a 'cut and blow dry' like all the other boys. So I went to Stuparts.
Everybody wanted the baldy guy with long hair ( a delightful oxymoron ) to do their hair, and not stupart with the floral shirt. It was rather shit, and I'm glad I now have no hair for these talented hair sculptors to cut.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:22 am
by duncan
George wrote:when I was a lad... I used to get a short back and sides at 'dicks mens hairdressers' on Dumbarton road ( there is a pic of the facade somewhere on here )...


here it is

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 11:35 pm
by Return of UUU
stranger wrote:it does look a lot like crow rd station
i havent been there for years does the line lead straight into a
tunnel behind the camera?


Haven't been there for years either, but I did check out the dead-end tunnel (I think the other side of the blockage is where the flats now are), back in my UUU days.

W.A.C Smith, in some of his books about Glasgow, took some "before" and "after" pictures, showing how the flats took over most of the space where the station was.

PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2005 5:18 pm
by Timchilli
Return of UUU wrote:W.A.C Smith, in some of his books about Glasgow, took some "before" and "after" pictures, showing how the flats took over most of the space where the station was.

Would it have been Glasgow's Last Days of Steam? I was leafing through it at lunch today (and feeling like a geek/tool for doing so).

I'd love to see some shots of the old station.


Tim.[/i]

PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2005 5:58 pm
by Return of UUU
I could be wrong about the "before" and "after" appearing in one of his books (it may have been a magazine article), but the "before" picture is definitely in his "An illustrated history of Glasgow's railways", which may still be available.

To quote from the picture caption:

"Crow Road is the main route through Partick from Jordanhill to Dumbarton Road ... although the station of that name was actually on Clarence Drive. A red brick booking hall faced Clarance Drive; it was supported on girders across the Glasgow-bound track and cast iron columns set in the island platform... The station was a casualty of the Queen St Low Level electrification and closed on 6th November 1960"


The book is well worth a look, as he has mainly pictures from the 50s and 60s, when all the lines were still open.

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 9:17 am
by stranger
Return of UUU wrote:
Haven't been there for years either, but I did check out the dead-end tunnel (I think the other side of the blockage is where the flats now are), back in my UUU days.



Dont know about the tunnel being blocked when i was there i walked it from the Dumbarton rd end at Partick West stn right through to the station at the other end couldnt get any further as it was built on from there on
impressive tunnel entrance right under a tenement iirc

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:58 am
by Return of UUU
(Cross checking with the map posted on one of the other threads:

http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php/45168/glasgow2.jpg

it would be the Kelvinside tunnel (to the north of the old station) that is blocked off at its south end

Hope that helps.

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 8:43 pm
by james73
stranger wrote:
Return of UUU wrote:
Haven't been there for years either, but I did check out the dead-end tunnel (I think the other side of the blockage is where the flats now are), back in my UUU days.



Dont know about the tunnel being blocked when i was there i walked it from the Dumbarton rd end at Partick West stn right through to the station at the other end couldnt get any further as it was built on from there on
impressive tunnel entrance right under a tenement iirc

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James H

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:16 pm
by Return of UUU
Nice pics!

Takes me back to the time when a group of us started at Dumbarton Rd and walked through them all until we came out in the middle of Ruchill park (or Golf course - I forget which).

We had to make occasional detours (like going around Maryhill shopping centre), but otherwise were able to keep to the track bed the rest of the way.

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:33 pm
by Pgcc93
Return of UUU wrote:Nice pics!

Takes me back to the time when a group of us started at Dumbarton Rd and walked through them all until we came out in the middle of Ruchill park (or Golf course - I forget which).

We had to make occasional detours (like going around Maryhill shopping centre), but otherwise were able to keep to the track bed the rest of the way.


You mean this one RoUUU?

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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:04 pm
by Return of UUU
PGCC,
I'm impressed by your back catalogue of photographs!

Is that the entrance looking from Maryhill Rd northwards? Or the exit at the other end?

PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2005 12:12 am
by Pgcc93
Return of UUU wrote:
Is that the entrance looking from Maryhill Rd northwards? Or the exit at the other end?


It's from the Maryhill Road end IIRC. Theres been a bit of landscaping since that pic was taken though! :wink:

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:08 am
by drcrippen
Just read the article in today's Herald about plans to reopen many of Glasgow's rail tunnels in a proposed £800 million pound scheme. There's a photo of the entrance to the Yorkhill tunnel as well. Loving it if this turns out to be true and goes ahead.

The tunnels in Glasgow have made me love the city all over again!

Jimmock

PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:11 pm
by caine
the 800 million scheme is the proposed subway extention, theres a few threads about it already on here some where.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:17 pm
by james73
caine wrote:the 800 million scheme is the proposed subway extention, theres a few threads about it already on here some where.


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http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1057&start=130



James H