Evolution of the Glasgow Subway 1896-2021 (geographic map)

Expansion of the Glasgow Subway from 1896 to 2021.
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[@MetroLiner]

Someone requested the Glasgow Subway for an April Fools episode. So here it is! Fun fact: The Glasgow Subway is the third oldest underground metro system in the World.

[@panos3941]

Pls do Athens metro🥺🙏🏼

[@郭釗均-r2o]

Make 2 video

[@ivanbruh770]

Pls Stockholm’s I have subscribed

[@deividasverbickas6233]

Can you do Berlin or Dubai next?

[@griffinrails]

lmao Maybe you could do the Rome metro next? i’d include the interurban trains and Trenitalia FL lines.

[@AridChannelOfficialSG]

At least this April Fools joke is actually informative and true

[@subraxas]

Yeah, well, it is really not great when one is an April Fools joke ALL YEAR ROUND. :-(

[@AridChannelOfficialSG]

@@subraxas m. Ok.

[@greycatturtle7132]

Yea

[@scottishrailwayfan915]

It is true it hasn’t change since it opened

[@glngrbread6363]

k wat

[@sangyoonsim]

For an April Fool's Day joke, this is surprisingly high quality!

[@diegodesouza5382]

Truly

[@danielsavitz5774]

Glasgow commuters from 1977-1980 would beg to differ

[@joseloera5849]

Dayum you spoiled it for me

[@garretfinch7745]

an

[@chew7656]

Bro your comment was the first thing I read when I clicked the video (my yt app displays the top comment right below the video. It's literally right below). You spoiled the prank

[@dynamic9873]

Quick note from a Glasgow resident: The system may seem pretty underwhelming when you just look at just the underground but it doesn't tell the full story. Glasgow has a very extensive above ground train network that is actually far more extensive than the underground network so the combination of both makes the system very effective overall.

[@dmreid9620]

Very true, when branded as SPT rail with the beige liveries it felt a lot more like a metro system than it does now under scotrail. Hopefully some day in the future abandoned lines will be reopened and the current lines will be rebuilt as part of a new light rail system. There’s a perfectly good line under Kelvingrove park and under Great Western road. It goes all the way to the Botanics then up to where Maryhill Tesco is now, and it’s just sitting there when it would be such a well used route if it was part of the network. Also there’s the line that’s currently a cycle path connecting Partick to Clydebank along the Clydeside which even still has the old platforms in place.

[@hommagat2587]

Plus a decent bus network

[@Thatspuremental]

@@hommagat2587decent at best so many companies and terrible buses if i had the choice i wouldnt touch them with a barge poll also I personally think we need a bew underground line as well

[@Token_Nerd]

Would have been funnier if you did the Rochester Subway, which closed and never reopened.

[@apluto12-z3e]

Or Eglington west

[@loplopthebird1860]

Or Liverpool Elevated

[@Humulator]

@@apluto12-z3e hi fellow Torontonian , i thought i never see you here

[@DanTheCaptain]

Rochester had a subway!?

[@randomcontentgenerator2331]

@@DanTheCaptain exactly

[@spencergraham-thille9896]

This is better than most cities in North America.

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

If it were in North America, it would be number 24 out of 24 metro systems by length, after New York, Mexico City, Washington, San Francisco (BART), Chicago, Vancouver, Atlanta, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia (SEPTA), Miami, Panama, Monterrey, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Santo Domingo, Baltimore, Philadelphia (PATCO), Staten Island, Newark, and Ottawa. Many of the newer US cities don't have metros, but they do have light rail networks. 25 of the 36 US cities larger than Glasgow (population 1.8M) have larger local rail rapid transit networks than Glasgow (including light rail and metro, but not counting streetcar or commuter rail). The cities which don't are: San Bernardino (population 4.7M) Detroit (4.3M), Tampa (3.1M), Orlando (2.6M), San Antonio (2.6M), Austin (2.2M), Cincinnati (2.2M), Kansas City (2.1M) Columbus (2.1M), Indianapolis (2.0M), and Nashville (1.9M). In Canada, all 3 cities larger than Glasgow have extensive metro networks. The three largest cities smaller than Glasgow have extensive light rail networks. The populations listed are all for the "metro area" as defined on the city's Wikipedia page.

[@warrenlemay8134]

​@@OntarioTrafficMan Don't even get me started on the regional rail system that would have covered most of Cincinnati's modern suburbs had it not been dismantled in the 20th Century, the abandoned Cincinnati subway, the Cincinnati regional light rail system that was voted down (leaving us stuck with horrible traffic), the joke that is the Cincinnati Bell Connector (streetcar), or the failed expansion plans for the streetcar. Like a lot of US cities, what exists today is a huge disappointment.

[@user-de4cq6uk6l]

@@OntarioTrafficMan BART doesn’t count imo, it’s a commuter rail line not a metro. SF does have light rail though

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

@@user-de4cq6uk6l BART is a commuter metro. It is fully grade separated, which qualifies it as a metro, and it is not part of the conventional railway network which disqualifies it as a commuter rail line. It's basically the same as MARTA in Atlanta and the Washington Metro

[@itande0551]

@@OntarioTrafficMan Now it would be the 25th since Guadalajara is building a new one

[@千九-d4x]

i learn so much from this video, thanks a lot! How a huge system!

[@panos3941]

😂😂😂😂

[@sangyoonsim]

Metro with just one line doesn't need to be small!

[@hidad7298]

This is absolutely remarkable, the speed at which it expands over the years is absolutely astronomical. Can’t wait to see how much more it will expand in the next decade.

[@keithscott1957]

Expansion? Oh no! The map is complicated enough as it is.

[@Dr.Kraig_Ren]

My brain couldn't keep up with the expansion pace

[@RipCityBassWorks]

This April fool's joke really got me. I seriously wasn't expecting just a single circular line.

[@skjorta1984]

mathematicians are running like hell after you said that

[@irithylloldman6526]

If only there was a more appropriate word for circular line

[@VianoMusicAcademy]

@@irithylloldman6526 circular route

[@skjorta1984]

guys hear me out: """""circle""""

[@hunterraylewis547]

Its 2 lines Inner circle going anticlockwise Outer circle going clockwise Takes 24mins to do the full loop Its like my own personal train toy set and I still enjoy using it. Also our train network is the largest outside of London so our trains compensate for the lack of subway.

[@GustavoGplay]

Of course, as a brazilian, I always find myself questioning about the evolution of Glasgow's subway Thanks youtube

[@greycatturtle7132]

Same XD

[@leonardofranzinribeiro4220]

It's one of those things you Just wake up at night with sweat on your forehead: "What does glasgow's subway look like?!"

[@greycatturtle7132]

@@leonardofranzinribeiro4220 yea XD

[@andrecamarao543]

quem nunca?

[@rafaelthome6702]

Não sei como passei tanto tempo sem essa informação

[@kermitthefrog9153]

The way that Glasgow's subways expanded is insane. It's so intricate and seeing the order of the new lines and expansion is so interesting.

[@yelperkelper7248]

Hey it's Kermit

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

It should be orange AND grey since it's two lines (Inner and Outer) that go around that loop. And the subway closed shortly after it opened in December 1896, but reopened the next month Pyongyang still has the superior metro

[@manformerlypigbukkit]

Thanks, Kim

[@sygneg7348]

based Kim Jong Un

[@Dilpicklesstan]

​@@xandascharts6901your joking right

[@bbubbinklm4320]

You actually missed something! Once the line re-opened, station names were actually changed: Partick Cross (which you spelt wrong lol) became Kelvinhall Merkland Street became Partick Govan Cross became Govan Copland Road became Ibrox Love from Glasgow😊

[@randomcontentgenerator2331]

yes but then it wouldn't have been as funny 😅

[@davidburnsmusic]

Merkland Street is actually a different station from Partick, which is in a slightly different location. Just to be even more pedantic ;)

[@shaunfaesolar]

also it went from a true closed loop where the trains were craned onto the tracks to having sidings with track leading off the circle to the depot. also there's a fairly sizable metro network of overground trains in greater glasgow.

[@DavidBelch]

I thought this too! And David Burns is right, Merkland Street is a completely different station about 30 meters away from Partick 😂 I think you can still see the remnants as a little box by the expressway side of the overground track...although that may have been absorbed by Chinatown now actually.

[@owenstockwood5040]

@@DavidBelch You can also still see the platforms from the train.

[@ChadWSmith]

Best kind of April Fools' joke. One that's actually real and not a joke at all.

[@Nugcon]

but it's still funny

[@alanwatts8239]

@@Nugcon Way funnier, actually. lol

[@brll5733]

Still a joke though. Just not theirs.

[@AJZulu]

Glasgo metro is a joke to be fair

[@brian554xx]

Some true facts become jokes when told properly.

[@jacobmedina6137]

As an American who lived in Glasgow for a year, their public transportation is still remarkably better than most of the USA’s!

[@kaiservonpanzer213]

it’s embarrassing how much it’s neglected. It’s an issue most people don’t seem to care about.

[@EmpanadaDeCaca]

It's not like it's that hard to have a better system of public transportation than the US lol

[@11Survivor]

Does the US even have public transportation

[@svartmetall48]

Yet still sadly garbage. Glasgow suffers as well from being horribly expensive to use, and the divided ticketing system is the worst aspect of all, thank you privatisation.

[@svartmetall48]

@Null Null Typical troll who has never experienced the world. I lived in Stockholm before. Public transport was cheaper, more efficient, far more extensive and thus far more used by people. We paid for it through taxes and fares, just as roads are paid for in the same sort of way. Funnily enough, my taxes are higher in Glasgow than Stockholm when you factor in council tax too, so it is really just that one gets terrible value for money in Glasgow.

[@scottgrey3337]

When you have a really good start to a school project and then proceed to procrastinate for the next three weeks

[@maxjones503]

This is a nice April Fools joke when it isn't being recommended to you three weeks late

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

London's Circle Line: You know, I was a circle once

[@2H80vids]

When the system reopened after modernisation, there had actually been some changes. As others have mentioned, Merkland Street closed and the new interchange opened at Partick. Several stations were renamed too and an above-ground depot was added for the first time. I get the April Fools' thing and it was a good idea, just could have been more complete.

[@Jacksonian]

Finally, a smaller subway system than Toronto's

[@MetroLiner]

😂

[@gianluigimaiorano6968]

​@@MetroLiner Why isn't there video about Naples metro? Naples metro Is the most beautiful in the world 😊

[@fallendown8828]

Very impressive improvements over there! Good job Scotts

[@imaweerascal]

It's amazing when you see it visualised like that! Incredible progress.

[@maiklover6940]

It still has more development than lots of movie and TV characters

[@hughmungusbungusfungus4618]

I was surprised... and then I wasn't. I especially liked that bit at the end where you zoomed out; I thought you were going to show future expansion. And then the video just ends because there isn't any. Hilarious

[@elrusolokooooo]

Ok ok don't over analyze it

[@Cronposh]

thanks for explaining the joke

[@LQC2556]

"But there's just one line right? How much history could there- oh."

[@glasghostm9138]

Technicall there's 2 lines! The outer and inner circle, running in opposite directions.

[@marcelwiszowaty1751]

Well there's more! The line has been undergoing its *second* modernisation for about six or seven years now... this includes complete track renewal, retiling of stations, rebranding... and new, fully walk-through articulated 4-car trains by Stadler. The first have already been delivered (they look great!) although not yet in service. Initially they will have drivers, as the current stock, but when all the current fleet has been replaced they are designed to be converted to full driverless operation... the driving cabs will be removed and all stations will feature platform-edge doors. I don't have a timescale for this but you can take a look at the new trains on the Strathclyde Passenger Transport website... click on Subway.

[@buddyltd]

Wow, it's lovely to see how infrastructure changes over time...

[@jmckendry84]

There's a drinking game where you buy an all-day ticket, visit every stop in turn and have a drink at the nearest pub to each stop (I think there's fifteen stops in total). My old flatmate decided he was going to have a double vodka at each stop. He managed about 10 stops but had to end there, after he projectile vomited into the grounds of the church on Dumbarton Road!

[@sanityassassin10]

Did this a couple of years ago with some guys from work, you end up meeting other groups going round at the same time. Did miss a couple of stops as there are no bars nearby but made up for it by having a couple or rounds at some bars.

[@Leonyithas]

The most Scottish experience ive ever heard.

[@okerudjo5684]

Great work! Now do the Omsk Subway animated

[@diztinger]

кому нужен омск, лол.

[@okerudjo5684]

Может быть даже омичам и не нужен, но легендарное омское метро должно прославиться на весь мир

[@ЕгорКарасик-ь5у]

@@diztinger Так чел, в этом же и смысл) В Омском метро одна стация, для Первого Апреля самое то бы было :D

[@martinvlasek2897]

Perfection doesn’t need a change 😂

[@lachlansrailwayproductions]

Most informative video ever made on the history of KZbin and every other platform like KZbin 👍

[@winndypops]

No need to expand on perfection boys.

[@kxdsh]

Thanks, I never really understood how it got to where it is today and with this video showing it step by step I finally understood

[@raggedclawstarcraft6562]

For the next april fools do Omsk subway. Since it consists of exactly one station. ONE. I'm not even joking. Not even one line. Just one station. It was the subject of memes and jokes ever since. Also include all the dates when Omsk mayor promised something, with exact dates. Promised, but never delivered.

[@magnuspeacock5857]

...what?

[@raggedclawstarcraft6562]

@@magnuspeacock5857 What you didn't understand?

[@magnuspeacock5857]

@@raggedclawstarcraft6562 I don't understand why there is a subway with only one station. How does that even happen?

[@raggedclawstarcraft6562]

​@@magnuspeacock5857 Russia, my friend. Budget splitting, stealing, dishonest officials. Here, have a scheme of that metro: i.redd.it/5i32iussq8x11.jpg

[@ianrasmussen5380]

@@raggedclawstarcraft6562 🤣

[@TRDInfo]

This is one of the tiniest metros around the world too!! Is interesting 🤠👌

[@elcatpan7221]

Epic

[@jaybee27D]

Man I’ll seriously watch anything KZbin tells me to these days, won’t I.

[@alexgruchet5512]

I have been waiting for this video for so long thx!😂🤪

[@einarrail]

Love this video! Can you make the Stockholm rail network, with metro, light rail, trams and commuter trains.

[@swededude1992]

Skulle va intressant o se den gamla dragningen av blå linje. Kungsträdgården till Hjulsta via Akallagrenen :)

[@SeongHo627]

History of Glasgow's Subway Open > Close > Reopen

[@dustgreylynx]

The best animation so far

[@2fortsmostwanted]

I appreciate how it continues to zoom out to show all the amazing new renovations

[@lexi-hh8xf]

wow this is so interesting! for sure surpasses the tokyo or shanghai episodes! i learned so much

[@Tom-dl5gs]

I'm a kiwi, I had no idea. I got to the end and spent a solid minute questioning my mental bandwidth.

[@hojdog]

It’s ok, you’re a kiwi. It’s expected and so we forgive you

[@janoslegyenfennajanoshegyen]

Thumbnail's be like "Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture" "they are the same picture"

[@chickenbokernot2598]

no, because they literally are the same picture

[@Konstaliusev]

@@chickenbokernot2598do you know what a meme is?

[@chickenbokernot2598]

@@Konstaliusev yes, the original poster doesnt.

[@brandonabc2022]

Can you do Philadelphia next?

[@hanakasa_tetu]

ここまで複雑な路線図は見た事ない！東京よりも断然すごいなーー！

[@Genius_at_Work]

One Thing that may have been worth noting is that until 1935, it used to be pulled by Cables instead of onboard Electric Motors, similar to the San Francisco Cable Car.

[@robertmilne4304]

The city planners had forward vision, they knew that what they built would still be adequate 125 years later. I live in Glasgow and last used it over 20 years ago.

[@rue_dae1365]

Oh what a great informative video! You’ve earned a new subscriber😄

[@Slaydrik]

I just randomly got this recommended to me but i'm not disappointed

[@Matyj04]

Bro, that's sick!

[@annisoptimistic]

For the next April fools day you should do the animation for subway expansion in Omsk, Russia. That subway itself is a sick joke.

[@missk1697]

It's fallout shelter for the Great Trial

[@ortherner]

@@missk1697 cringe

[@thebottlewithoutalix2806]

yea the omsk metro was never completed as far as i'm aware

[@thebottlewithoutalix2806]

@@ortherner ok i've voiced this before but nobody has seemed to listen so i will say it more directly this time tno fans = anti-tno people they are just as bad as each other. where one comes, the other follows. it plagues every corner of the internet, i can't watch a video about something like omsk or the mediterranean without these two groups showing up in the comments.

[@ortherner]

@@thebottlewithoutalix2806 ?

[@isaacmarwell5435]

Greatest KZbin video of all time.

[@Coolestdudever_Gaming]

most complicated system in the world

[@asinineAbbreviations]

i live in glasgow, and my friend lives in london. we always joke about how complicated she finds the subway whenever she comes up to see me

[@Xormac2]

You should have done Omsk subway (only one station and zero lines) for April 1st 😂. Nice video anyway

[@haroeneissa790]

Why do they have a station without lines?

[@Mentally_Will]

Yeah that doesn't make sense in my head. Was it abandoned? I mean, I'm gonna Google it after I type this, but if I would have liked if Marco gave more information.

[@Xormac2]

@@Mentally_Will basically they planned a metro system and they started building tunnels and one station but the whole project was abandoned and now there is a open subway entrance you can enter (with even a real Metro sign) but it does not lead anywhere but the other side of the street. That's why "one station and zero lines" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omsk_Metro

[@VSaccount]

the fact that its a circle blows my mind, the Helsinki metro is just a straight line that divides into two lines, and all the expansions did was make the line longer

[@eggy543]

Glasgow Subway *didn't change since 1896*

[@potawatadingdong]

I knew exactly what I was getting into and I wasn't disappointed.

[@DavidPeacock1972]

I was once chased down St Enoch stairs by a homeless guy wanting my last cigarette 😂

[@timelesswolf3769]

Omg this changed so much!

[@user-wt5sp4mp8u]

Happy april fools' day!

[@benodaboy]

This is a whole new level of internet comedy.

[@VulcanTrekkie45]

And here I was thinking the MBTA was unambitious 😂

[@Hitblank]

Loving exactly this kind of content.

[@reinerjung1613]

This is not only a very good April Fools episode, it is also a reminder how lousy politicians have been in the past 100 years.

[@owenstockwood5040]

Well, it doesn't really need expansion, as Glasgow is well served by a commuter rail system.

[@reinerjung1613]

@@owenstockwood5040 They could build some more north-south connections. However, last time in Glasgow, I had the impression that there is not a unified ticket which you can use to ride buses, the clockwork orange and the commuter rail. And more bike space and a tram instead of space for cars. ;-)

[@owenstockwood5040]

@@reinerjung1613 Fair point, we could do with those. However, I feel that we may be better making the new connections part of the commuter rail system, rather than the Underground.

[@raakone]

You forgot the periods it was half closed, when the lines, one at a time, were changed from cable-hauled (yes, basically the same as San Fransisco) to third rail (although there was also a "fourth rail" on the walls, from the cable-hauled era, for powering the lights, this was abolished with the overhaul at the end of the 70s)

[@RandomTheoTownBuilder]

Sugestions for new videos 1⁰: Seoul 2⁰: Moscow [3⁰: Berlin DONE] 4⁰: Frankfurt 5⁰: Rio de Janeiro (supervia, VLT, BRT) 6⁰: St Petersburg 7⁰: Barcelona 8⁰: Buenos Aires 9⁰: Chicago 10⁰: Hong-Kong 11⁰: Lisbon 12⁰: Madrid 13⁰: Cidade de México 14⁰: Montreal 15⁰: Munich 16⁰: Osaka 17⁰: Oslo 18⁰: Santiago del Chile 19⁰: Shanghai 20⁰: Stockholm 21⁰: Vienna 22⁰: Milan 23⁰: Singapore

[@omersar3765]

Where is istanbul I think more important than oslo

[@hans_normal]

Thanks! Exactly the right amount of input for me today.

[@anaX1man]

You need to make video about Russian city Omsk metro. It has only one station.

[@Xotics]

That was a very in-depth video, thank you.

[@thedogcraft]

Can you animate the expansion of the subway of the German capital (Berlin)?

[@ArthurDWolfe]

So what you are saying is it was... perfect. From the very beginning. Fascinating.

[@seanrodgers1839]

Great April fools because it is not a made up. It is completely factual, yet still a joke. The best kind.

[@insertnamehere7961]

wow. crazy how metro systems change. truly a milestone in transport and it's ever changing routes

[@zuzyliana4888]

Glasgow be like: it ain't much but its honest work

[@Moxilock]

Thank you, This was life changing

[@wahjergah4543]

I scrolled past this at first thinking it was a random video and then I realized what the problem was

[@ttvrs1059]

Glasgow really went like "more lines?! but I've given you one already!"

[@cansadoyt]

This was a very hard-to-do video!🤡🤣🤣🤣

[@HunterShows]

LOL, great storytelling. At least the thumbnail didn't lie!

[@interkorea.nizorin]

metro Seoul please 🥺🇰🇷

[@RodolpheLama]

Just AWESOME !!!! That's a good april fish ! I didn't know Glasgow subway and now it's done. Thank You !!!

[@Sammy58328]

Thank you for wasting 57 seconds of my life!

[@winecko]

Haha great video!

[@mlc4495]

It's like the Roman Air Bases in the 1st Century meme come to life.

[@myonlydemandisbacktowork8759]

This is very informative. Thank you 🙂

[@ollyaway]

I Wish the Glasgow subway was bigger like the London underground

[@OwO_Twalker]

1977:Ah finally we have something different Glasgow:Close the whole system

[@toast6494]

1896: Giant circle 2021: Still a giant circle

[@alexandersohn569]

Do Bucharest subway expansion next

[@NoorAnomaly]

Thank you KZbin Algorithm for taking me here! This was VERY informative. :D

[@Yuushz80]

Fantastic! hahahahaha after this I feel brave enough to request Rio de Janeiro's metro system. If you wish I'd love to help with trustable sources ;)

[@joao9656]

Brasília subway is just perfect loved the video about it 😍

[@TheDavebox]

Nice channel! Can you please make a video about the subway line expansion in Genoa, Italy? Thanks

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[@dacoconutking]

thank you, this explains alot about the glasgow subway ❤️

[@fudgeweasel]

Best video yet.

[@carlin6493]

wow much has changed over the years and great this video demonstrates that

[@philrod1]

They are currently in the process of changing the colour scheme. It's taking quite a while, as you can imagine.

[@rexjolles]

the subway in my city isn't nearly that old, but some stretches have doors that go to old office buildings that were knocked down ages ago, and these cool ass old water fountains and tiles and shit

[@jamodonnahan610]

This is the perfect video :)

[@Rextum]

This is why you should pre-plan what you do, saves a lot of work👍🏻