One of my favourite walks.....very green now, regularly see deer on the line. Amazing to see how it once was. Thank you so much for sharing these photos XX
Thank you once again. I’m old enough to remember them being used....Can you imagine a mass transit system nowadays. We would have been leading the country.
Thanks I enjoyed that, had to laugh at the pidgeon loft someone had built on Scotstoun East station! Shame the granary building was demolished. The line was built partly to tap into the lucrative market of taking shipyard workers into Clydebank.
Superb photos. It's great most of the former line has been turned into a cycle path/walkway but rather disappointing they removed a large section of the cycle path (former line) between Whiteinch Riverside station and Partick and replaced it with car showrooms. Could never see the logic with that!!
Definitely. I cycle that way regularly, and it’s a bit jarring to have come all the way from Balloch pretty much traffic free, to be tipped out on to a pretty busy road past Glasgow Harbour. There are of course paths at the new apartments, but last the showrooms it’s pretty much every man for himself.
I used to use Yoker Ferry station to get to Paisley Ice Rink for the Saturday skating sessions. What a journey - train to Yoker Ferry; Ferry across the Clyde (NOT the Mersey), then bus on into Paisley. I remember Partick Central as the station for the Christmas Circus in the nearby Kelvin Hall.
The real killer for the Riverside line was not the other railways but the electrification of the tramlines only a few years after the Riverside line opened. It struggled thereafter. Also, as the name implies, residential traffic was only generated from one side of the tracks. Rush hour only traffics from the riverside businesses just does not generate profits.
It's a pity that these old railway lines can't be turned into cycle and walking lanes around Glasgow. I know that wouldn't be cheap however it could be done incrementally allowing for finances. They've got money next year for a so called 'scaled down' Commonwealth games. For me a big waste of money. On the other hand developing Cycling infrastructure while embracing Glasgow's railway heritage is, for me, a far better use of public money with tangible payback.
@@paulherlihy9290 Thanks for your comments. Although Glasgow hasn't achieved anything like the same effort that Edinburgh has done to convert their many disused suburban lines into cycle and walking paths, most fortunately this particular line is nowadays a happy exception, having been converted some time ago (late 80s/early 90s) into an attractive, well used, and well cared for corridor path between Partick and Dumbarton. Others, such as those in the north and east of the city, have now been rather too much built upon to create further uninterrupted paths for any lengths.
That was smashing. Cheers mate.
Great pictures , always wondered what the view were like , your pictures
Bring the imagination to life 👍🏻
Thanks for your Kind comments!
One of my favourite walks.....very green now, regularly see deer on the line.
Amazing to see how it once was.
Thank you so much for sharing these photos XX
Love these videos
Thank you once again. I’m old enough to remember them being used....Can you imagine a mass transit system nowadays. We would have been leading the country.
Thanks I enjoyed that, had to laugh at the pidgeon loft someone had built on Scotstoun East station! Shame the granary building was demolished. The line was built partly to tap into the lucrative market of taking shipyard workers into Clydebank.
Superb photos. It's great most of the former line has been turned into a cycle path/walkway but rather disappointing they removed a large section of the cycle path (former line) between Whiteinch Riverside station and Partick and replaced it with car showrooms. Could never see the logic with that!!
Definitely. I cycle that way regularly, and it’s a bit jarring to have come all the way from Balloch pretty much traffic free, to be tipped out on to a pretty busy road past Glasgow Harbour. There are of course paths at the new apartments, but last the showrooms it’s pretty much every man for himself.
excellent shots👍 so sad to see disused railway lines and stations that once where working😥
I used to use Yoker Ferry station to get to Paisley Ice Rink for the Saturday skating sessions. What a journey - train to Yoker Ferry; Ferry across the Clyde (NOT the Mersey), then bus on into Paisley. I remember Partick Central as the station for the Christmas Circus in the nearby Kelvin Hall.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Wish they’d kept this
Was it double tracked at the Scotstoun East station?
The real killer for the Riverside line was not the other railways but the electrification of the tramlines only a few years after the Riverside line opened. It struggled thereafter. Also, as the name implies, residential traffic was only generated from one side of the tracks. Rush hour only traffics from the riverside businesses just does not generate profits.
Partick
It's a pity that these old railway lines can't be turned into cycle and walking lanes around Glasgow.
I know that wouldn't be cheap however it could be done incrementally allowing for finances.
They've got money next year for a so called 'scaled down' Commonwealth games. For me a big waste of money. On the other hand developing Cycling infrastructure while embracing Glasgow's railway heritage is, for me, a far better use of public money with tangible payback.
@@paulherlihy9290 Thanks for your comments.
Although Glasgow hasn't achieved anything like the same effort that Edinburgh has done to convert their many disused suburban lines into cycle and walking paths, most fortunately this particular line is nowadays a happy exception, having been converted some time ago (late 80s/early 90s) into an attractive, well used, and well cared for corridor path between Partick and Dumbarton.
Others, such as those in the north and east of the city, have now been rather too much built upon to create further uninterrupted paths for any lengths.
Very sad.