The (old) Glasgow Subway 1974 DVD preview.
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2012
- This is a remarkable film made by the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde in 1974 just before the total modernisation of the Glasgow Underground - a system that was little changed since opening in 1896! Running for 54 minutes, this is a comprehensive and unique record of this anachronism now available to purchase on DVD for just £12.00 from Video 125 Ltd. Order on line or by telephone @ www.video125.co.uk or 01344 628565 (phone lines manned during office hours).
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I had this on VHS for a while. It's a great film, specifically made to remember the system before it closed for modernisation. Highly recommended.
I've Used To Go On The Glasgow Subway Railway In Glasgow In Scotland And It Was Super Awesome. X
I must get it thank you the Glasgow Underground has fascinated me for a long time
I saw this video for the first time today and imagine my surprise when i see my grandparents featured in it! Thank you
Very interesting thanks. I knew Glasgow had an underground railway but thought it was a 1970s idea like the Newcastle Metro. I had no idea it started in 1896. This reminds me of the Budapest Metro Line 1, which was built around the same time.
Yes, that was 20 years ago and had never been output on DVD. I have personally congratulated the producer. It stands the test of time today and the filming was way ahead of its time when it was shot. So many films of the era were shot silent and dubbed. This lets you actually hear the old trains. A great find indeed. WIthout this there would be little record of the old surviving Victorian based system.
I had just had my 16th birthday living in Glasgow this was shot. I used the subway a lot. Everyone I knew did also. Watching this wonderful film is like being picked up and thrown into the past. It's also a powerful reminder of just how tacky and rundown the system had become. At the time we didn't complain because it was reliable and we passengers frankly didn't know any better- we'd grown up with it but I cant deny it's better in every way in 2019. Just a shame it was never extended.
I went on the clockwork orange only once in 1970 when I visited Glasgow so I remember it just like it was in this preview. Never mind the ballast - shuggle was the new Scottish word I learnt.
Travelled on the glasgow subway in the 1960's. Hell of a ride !!
Marvellous stuff. I remember it like that, and in some places the island platforms were very narrow. Quite worrying if you had had a few sherberts.
I remember traveling as a child on this, I hated it because you couldn't breath for tobacco smoke - it absolutely reeked, it put me off tobacco for life...yeugh!
Looks very interesting!
it's still the same tunnels
Was that where the nerd sound came? 1:50
I hadn't used the subway in years but then a few months ago, I had to get to the other side of the city and didn't know what buses to get and I discovered that the subway was the quickest option. I started using it again and it was ok, no troubles but then one day, after a few months of not using it, I started up again and on 2 separate occasions when we were approaching Cowcaddens station, the train slowed down a good 4-5 minutes before it reached the end of the tunnel and I felt like it was going to stop inside the tunnel (not good when you're claustrophobic) needless to say, it didn't stop but it terrified me of ever using it again. So imagine my fear when I heard that driver on the phone saying "I've broken down in the tunnel."
lol Jennifer. that once happened to me and I got off at the next stop. lol
I remember a time when it not only stopped inside the tunnel for 5-10mins but also the electric flickered and flash like electrocution blue and white sparks everywhere. Then all the lights in the carriages went out so we sat there in pitch blackness. Not knowing what was happening or what to do. When the lights came back on. The woman much older than myself had terror in her eyes. And our eyes confided in one another. Strangest stranger encounter to have. It still didn't move for a whole though. And all the way through the long dark tunnel when it did finally move again it kept stopping and stalling and the lights keep flickering and flashing. The train also moved snail speed. It felt like forever before we reached the next station. I was ready to get off there and then and never to get back on one again. But I have since and it has never happened like that again. You know it could have been a terrorised attack and we would have been none the wise. Just silently trusting the driver to get us out of there in the pitch dark under world.
I recall a time when a train just before reaching the Glasgow city centre station stopped midway on track before ever reaching the station. And I thought nothing of it until the driver told us overhead to not panic. That a suspicious package has been discovered on the train and it may be a bomb. So we were to sit there until some guys came to inspect it. Waited 30 mins terror gripping me. Obviously they were more interested in protecting it from ever reaching the city centre station where more people resided. I never knew much about terrorist back then I was a teen. And not a lot of big new ones happened back then. But the terror of a suspected bomb on board was enough to cause terror in me. It took over 30 mins. But we started moving again eventually and never was told if it was a false alarm or not. I was legs like jelly getting off that train. Anytime the train stops before reaching the station I get the same fears.
As for the subway... I heard the tunnels were dug out from old cemeteries. I wonder why there are not a lot more spooks down there. That electric fault I experienced reminded me of Ghostbusters movie the new one.
Sorry but your your memory is bad. This was never called the Clockwork Orange. That was the nickname to the trains that replaced the ones in the preview. Those in the preview are the original Victorian trains.
video125co what about the ole song, "I love to ride on the old clockwork orange........round the city in circles we go, we go-oh......." That was about Glasgow's Subway system.
I remember them as being a deep red colour, but they look kindafa' orange in the film, is that just because of the lighting? or am I looking at my childhood through rose-tinted specs?
it was Peter Parker who first called the train A Clockwork Orange
The only people who call it the, "clockwork orange" are the media and the luvvies. No one else has ever called it that.
Nice video.
Ers a 60 minute doc on this RUclips gonna gee it a watch Hala the subway💪🏼🤪🧡
I remember seeing that woman in opening shot, the subway worker often, wonder how she is going ?
At 2.00 the conductor announcing the delay sounds like a dead ringer for Rikki Fulton's "supercop"!
1. He was the driver.
2. well yeah....maybe. Never thought about that....but.....he was me granddad.....never saw it at all. Rikki fulton was always more bulbous. My Grand dad always was ....thin...you know. No excess fat.
Historic footage, uses Comic Sans
Thats so cool! Do the trains still get lifted out??
no, they drive out on a slope to the maintenance yard
Don't you be getting ideas Hen
wowwwwwww.
This old subway is tiny you can't Evan get space when your in the train
Is that a young Susan Boyle at 0:53?
Wonderfull! A subway like a Harry Potter movie set :-)
1:57 Pure Scottish accent
Awwwww that kind of you to say. For I shit thee not...thats my Graddad.
@@deadbydayinblack is it aye?
@@evancain4906 yep 100% So much I found the original recording tranfered on dvd for my mum ( so her dad). Its rather long with bits that are only interesting to those that care about a really niche subject. BUT yeah....its him
Archibald Park Rorke. WW2 Royal marine in india.
Shipbuilder on the clyde ( with a pic with him with the duke of endiburgh)
My granddad.
Just glad that long after he died...some one out side his family has a kind word for him.
@@deadbydayinblack right
@@evancain4906 you are of course correct man. With no way to verify I could be talking out my arse. And let's be honest who is going to jump through hoops to prove his grandad to some random guy on the internet. I sure as hell ain't gonna post a video with pics of him n me playing an atari 2600 more than 35 years ago. So be sceptical...dont change the truth
No, the new trains are driven out of the tunnel up a slope.
This is an old video made in 1974. Read the description.
Energy efficiency. Rolls up a hill when stopping and has a small hill to roll down when starting. LU has this at many stations too.
Used to love watching the big girls getting on and off with their mini skirts on and sitting down across the coach from me
38S
Eewwwww, that looks like the LU in the 30's!
msgoodvsbad ITS BACK THEN
The Glasgow subway is an embarrassment as it only covers half the city. The half it doesn't cover just happens to be the poorer one. The 'weak ground' excuse is ridiculous. Ironic that a system built by working-class men is an exercise in old Merchant Glasgow snobbery.
It was only going to places where people would pay the fare. Doesn't sound unreasonable.
Ken Thomson It should have been extended though. It's the only old Subway system in the world that was never extended.
Revolver Yes. Bit of a shame.
Don't talk shite !
"Weak ground" is a weak excuse. An example: the Kazan metro. They said it couldn't be done because of the many rivers. It was still done. Albeit with many turns and steep grades.
great service. needs to BS nationalized. commuters at hhillheadand kelvinbridge should pat 25% more. obnoxious G12ers
It is nationalised. It's run by SPT, a local government body.