crusty_bint wrote:Superb James!!!! You must post these in Fossy's marvellous little Old/New thread
Crusty
Done.
James H
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The first to spring to mind, and a mere track inspection report from your house, is the ghost of Partickhill old station. The platforms and ticket office are, infact, still visible from the train today. She can be seen from the mainline on the approach to Partick station. However, unfortunately, platform access is restricted only to those with a "yella vest" and a hard hat (i.e. me, when I worked for those c**ts).
Source: The Glasgow Story
In 1977 the Glasgow Underground system was closed so that it could be fully modernised. Merkland Street station was demolished and its replacement was renamed Partick station. Some of the old station's fixtures and fittings were removed from by Glasgow Museums, and used to recreate an Underground station in the city's Museum of Transport.
Timchilli wrote:
So this Partick Central Station was actually called "Merkland Street" and was part of the underground, while Partickhill Station (which can be seen on the overground as you approach [modern day] Partick Station from Hyndland) is something entirely different?
scotia47 wrote:Very impressive. The one throught the letterbox is my fave - didn't imagine there would still be tables and chairs lying about.
epple wrote:you can see my house in these pictures...
however is this part of the same line that runs into the tunnel beside the transport museum?
epple wrote:I took a walk in there armed with my lighter and napkins one drunken sunday morning but got a bit spooked. Im planning another trip and have bought me a nice new torch that sticks to my head and everything, but does it actually lead anywhere or is a dead end? Just so's i know what to expect...
epple wrote:Anybody been in there?
epple wrote:ps long time listener, first time caller....
james73 wrote:This explains the odd layout of track at the SECC station itself - they branched
the eastbound line off the main line at Yorkhill and created a new section
of tunnel underneath Gilbert St in Kelvinhaugh which burrows into the side
of the old Stobcross to Kelvin Hall tunnel.
Whether or not there's a dead end where the new tunnel burrows into the
old one I don't know - I've heard they piled earth in up to the height of the
tunnel roof to stop tresspassing and "control the air flow."
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