Cycle Route

[Captain Brittles]

The Home Brew shop as they can't afford to go out, The Broomhill Shopping Cente to deal their drugs which gave them the money to buy their flat, Roastit Bubbly Jocks for a not too expensive but good meal out, The Rosevale Tavern to meet up with fellow season ticket holders and of course LIDL for their shopping.

Why would these prospective riverside apartment dwellers buy a home brew kit with the proceedings of their alleged drug dealing activities and then dine out and finish an evening off in a pub ? A contradiction or two there Dex.

[adouglasmathie]

The current cyclepath from town out to Scotstoun is a joke. Ideally it should all be along the banks of the Clyde.

However, the worst bit is the pedestrian bridge over the expressway which is just not bike friendly.

So some of this sounds like a good idea.

Presumably, new flats only get planning permission if they open up public/bike access to the water front. Can anyone in GCC planning confirm this is right.

[Dexter St. Clair]

The domolition of the cycle path has started. South Street, west of Harmsworth Street has already been flattenned along with the Harmesworth bar.

[Strike Team]

Some bumff came though the letterbox the other day describing the road works for the harbour. It shows a "proposed light rapid transit route" running immediately South of, and parallel to, Castlebank St., then apparrently running along an extended Castlebank St., and the disappearing past Yorkhill Quay. Whether this is the end of of the line, it goes into a tunnel, or this is simply the result of some cooncil bureaucrat drawing random railway tracks on the map in felt-tip pen after a particularly heavy bevvy session is not clear.

What is clear though is the sheer fluorescent idiocly of the cooncil in allowing railway land to be taken over for the Glasgow Harbour project, while blathering on about developing a rapid transit/guided bus system. Common sense would of course dictate using the existing embankment, Partick Central site, etc. for light rail. But common sense and Glasgow City Council are like matter and anti-matter - incapable of existing in the same universe.

[Pgcc93]

Wholesale demolition of the former railway bridges now in full swing on the cycletrack on South Street.













Old Station about to disappear

[Pgcc93]

some more images from South Street

Harmsworth Street bridge ......gone!



Going!



Going!!




Gone!!!

[Fossil]

I hope you got the sign PGCC

Fossil

[Pgcc93]

Cutting up the remains

[Pgcc93]

I hope you got the sign PGCC

Fossil

I asked the demolition guy for it and he happily obliged but it was too well fecked to bother about. So I just took a pic instead.

[Pgcc93]

Bridge at Thornwood about to go next.














Yet another little bit of Glasgow history bites the dust.

[Vladimir]

When did this line close down

[Alycidon]

Passenger services ceased on the 5th of October 1964, along with the remainder of the former Caledonian services via Glasgow Central Low Level. Freight traffic remained, and Scotstoun signal box remained manned until 1st December 1968 after which the line was worked as a freight siding.
The former through route was severed to the East beyond Partick Central in 1965 and was worked as a siding from Rothesay Dock and Yoker yard serving various sidings, closures were as follows:
PARTICK EAST JN to Partick Central Goods 23-Oct-1978
SCOTSTOUN WEST to Balmoral Street Level Crossing 18-Nov-1966
Scotstoun West to Yoker Ferry, S S E B Siding 31-Jan-1978
Scotstoun, Balmoral Street Level Crossing to Meadowside Granary Siding 03-Mar-1969
Yoker Yard to Partick, Meadowside Granary Siding 22-Mar-1980

[Alycidon]

From George C O'Hara's book "Scottish Urban and Rural Branch Lines" April 1976

[Vladimir]

Thanks for the info. Would it not be kind of useful if that line was still in operation, given the transoprt needs for that area , or does it miss out a lot on its route.

[james73]

From George C O'Hara's book "Scottish Urban and Rural Branch Lines" April 1976

Great picture - is there a date on it? EDIT - just noticed, April 76?

Looks like the line is singled. Scotstoun West station (and the main line itself)
was behind the tenements to the right. The bridge is part of the cycle route
and I've cycled passed the neds that congregate on it many times.



James H