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STV:-Clockwork Orange Strikes 115 Years Old

Happy Birthday! Clockwork Orange, Here's to the next 115 years.

Long live the ginger tube!

Yes thanks to victorians eh.it should be linked up to city union line on south side also linked at st enoch to low level and glasgow cross could be linked up with city union line and low level.that would extend its reach without much cost.Glasgow needs it now.lets show eburgh how to do it properly.

cell wrote:Long live the ginger tube!

I hope your not referring to this ginger tube

I must be mellowing, I find myself not hating Chris Evans as much as I used to

I still hate journalists and people who should know better than to refer to The Underground or The Subway as the Clockwork Orange.

Dexter St. Clair wrote:I still hate journalists and people who should know better than to refer to The Underground or The Subway as the Clockwork Orange.

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I agree with you Dex - as a born & bred Glaswegian,who can remember his last trips on the old pre-modernisation system, to me it will always be The Subway, I point blank refuse to call it The Underground or Clockwork Orange and god help anyone who has the audacity to even mention the words "The Tube" in my vicinity!

I was only half listening to the news earlier but i'm sure I heard some guy say the name was changed to Underground in the 70s. It was changed in 1937 to disassociate the public's memory from the old unreliable cable hauled system. Most still called it the Subway though.

glasgowken wrote:I was only half listening to the news earlier but i'm sure I heard some guy say the name was changed to Underground in the 70s. It was changed in 1937 to disassociate the public's memory from the old unreliable cable hauled system. Most still called it the Subway though.

Didn't think you were that old Ken

I know there was a rebranding exercise to change it back from the Underground to back to being called the Subway - most stations now have the name of the Station displayed above the entrance where before it was the big U logo

Cheeky whipper snapper, I bought the first ticket

It was officially changed back to Subway in 2003 (according to my site, so it must be true ), I suppose they bowed to public sentiment although the cynic in me thinks it was a publicity stunt and 99.9% of the public couldn't give a sod what it's called.

glasgowken wrote:Cheeky whipper snapper, I bought the first ticket ::):

And here's the evidence

yoker brian wrote:

Dexter St. Clair wrote:I still hate journalists and people who should know better than to refer to The Underground or The Subway as the Clockwork Orange.

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I agree with you Dex - as a born & bred Glaswegian,who can remember his last trips on the old pre-modernisation system, to me it will always be The Subway, I point blank refuse to call it The Underground or Clockwork Orange and god help anyone who has the audacity to even mention the words "The Tube" in my vicinity!

God forbid anyone would be have posted a tongue in cheek reference to name of Glasgow's own train set

I've never minded the "clockwork orange" tag, I like the dark undertones (Burgess/Angelic Upstarts) that it evokes rather than the cute toy town image than the journalist was probably aiming for.

a friend of mine who lives in bothwell used to work at st georges x and used to take the bus to buchanan st station then walk to st georges x he never used the subway he thought he would end up in helensburgh or somewhere if he used it
yet all he had to do was ask for a ticket at buchanan st for st georges x
i reckon he must be the only person in the glasgow area thats never been on the subway

yoker brian wrote:

glasgowken wrote:Cheeky whipper snapper, I bought the first ticket ::):

And here's the evidence

My hair is never usually that shiny, must be the tar