Re: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:20 pmMy dad worked on the Clyde Tunnel when it was being built. He used to have to go into a compression chamber after working down there. Hard work indeed.
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:20 pmRe: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:56 amDunno if this has been posted before.
Re: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:56 pmevening times
Clyde Tunnel concert axed
PLANS for a concert by 1000 singers in the Clyde Tunnel have been scrapped.
Glasgow City Council has refused to allow the tunnel to be closed for a concert because of serious safety concerns.
Clyde Tunnel concert axed
PLANS for a concert by 1000 singers in the Clyde Tunnel have been scrapped.
Glasgow City Council has refused to allow the tunnel to be closed for a concert because of serious safety concerns.
Re: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:05 pmCouldn't they have left the lights on ? 
Clyde Tunnel Pic
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:33 pmDriving through the Clyde tunnel the other day and I noticed a large wide banner of the earth's globe on it? What is being advertised? It was at night so I couldn't see at all.
Re: Clyde Tunnel Pic
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:35 amRe: Clyde Tunnel Pic
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:38 amMungoDundas wrote:It's just art, ...................
That's a matter of opinion.
Re: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:23 pmHi, found this pdf that's got details of the fire safety model they used!
http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/1 ... 2006+a.pdf
One other thing i've always wondered about was the red art sculptures on Glasgow road near Drumpellier golf course, can't remember where I heard it but someone said the metal sections were taken from parts replaced in the Clyde Tunnel. They look like sections from the pictures i've seen, but its only a roumor i'd heard!
And also another PDF all about the Autoscope system http://autoscope.com/news_publications/ ... Tested.pdf
Cheers
Scott
http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/1 ... 2006+a.pdf
One other thing i've always wondered about was the red art sculptures on Glasgow road near Drumpellier golf course, can't remember where I heard it but someone said the metal sections were taken from parts replaced in the Clyde Tunnel. They look like sections from the pictures i've seen, but its only a roumor i'd heard!
And also another PDF all about the Autoscope system http://autoscope.com/news_publications/ ... Tested.pdf
Cheers
Scott
Re: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:25 pmThe tunnel southwards bound
Re: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:26 pmvery poor
Re: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:02 pmSir Alan Muir Wood
Designer of the Clyde Tunnel; Born August 8, 1921; Died February 1, 2009.
Glasgow Herald
Designer of the Clyde Tunnel; Born August 8, 1921; Died February 1, 2009.
SIR Alan Muir Wood, the designer of the Clyde Tunnel who has died aged 87, has been styled the "father of modern tunnelling".
A Brunelian figure, his development of civil engineering made possible such late twentieth-century infrastructure projects as the Channel Tunnel.
His design of Glasgow's sub-river crossing responded to challenges of keeping the tunnel face stable when encountering waterbearing sands and gravel beneath the river bed. He also had to establish a design that coped with a route dipping down through the flatlands of Govan before rising steeply on the north side to counter the steep brae of Balshagray hill.
Glasgow Herald
Re: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:59 pmYou have to admit that in tunnel terms, the Clyde Tunnel is about as poor a show as tunnels can get. Quite bloody awful really.
Re: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:45 pmOn the evidence that you have presented I don't have to admit anything.
Re: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:55 pmBrickwall - You've been 'Dextered'.
Re: Clyde Tunnel
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:09 pmDexter St. Clair wrote:On the evidence that you have presented I don't have to admit anything.
Check out the 'heavy brickwork' evidence on his avatar, easy peasy.