Aug 13, 2022
This is for You leaflet (Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive, 1977).
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This is for You leaflet (Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive, 1977).
Glasgow Underground - House music through the generations
Today, Glasgow Underground is a popular label that markets itself towards a new generation of House Music lovers. Squarely for DJs and dance
Today, Glasgow Underground is a popular label that markets itself towards a new generation of House Music lovers. Squarely for DJs and dancers into Deep House, Tech House and related styles. Releasing new music and covers of everything from Born Slippy to Get ur Freak On.
In the past, GU was hugely influential to a previous generation of DJs and Deep House lovers. We look at the label's journey to where it is today. Listen to the playlist and read more here
The Glasgow subway!
On December 14th 1896 Glasgow District Underground opened.
Originally built for the Glasgow District Subway Company, the railway first opened in 1896 as a cable-hauled system. Propulsion was provided by stationary steam engines and the railway was hailed as the first of its type in the world.
After five years of construction, and a final bill totalling £1.5 million pounds, Glasgow’s Subway system went live for the first time on this day in 1896, entering the history books as the world’s third municipal underground railway system after the Budapest Metro and London Underground. But it would be a troublesome baptism for the fledgling tube service.
The brainchild of civil engineer Alexander Simpson, it had been built to serve a rapidly-expanding industrial city with a population fast approaching 1 million people.
The first carriage of the new Glasgow District Subway, as it was originally named, departed Govan Cross at 5am. The first cars were cable-hauled and would remain so until electrification was introduced in 1935.
As dawn broke it seemed the whole city was out in force and directors and officials were soon congratulating themselves on the success of their new system. However, any fist-pumping or back-slapping was to prove premature.
At around 3pm a complete breakdown occurred on the outer circle, causing momentary chaos. Stranded passengers were forced to walk along the lines back to the nearest station.
A few hours later, as normal service resumed, one man suffered a horrific foot injury as the huge swell of people forced him between the carriage and platform.
As if that wasn’t bad enough for day one, worse followed at just before 11pm when a stationary carriage awaiting the signal to approach St Enoch Station from Bridge Street was hit by another car running at near full speed.
The two carriages were carrying roughly 50 passengers each at the time of the collision and 18 were reported as seriously injured.
One 14-year-old boy was rendered unconscious and taken to the Royal Infirmary, having suffered a severe cut to his left temple.
The accident made headlines up and down the UK, forcing the closure of the Subway until January the following year.
An enquiry into the collision concluded that defective electrical connections between the signals had been the cause, although private trials in the weeks leading up to the opening had failed to flag up any major issues.
The driver of the approaching car claimed that he had spotted the stationary carriage but had been unable to stop in time to prevent the collision.
Despite the accident, the vibe was mostly positive - one of the main complaints being that the number of cars available on day one had been “hopelessly inadequate”. Subway directors countered this by stating that the extreme “rush of traffic” had exceeded all expectations.
They weren’t wrong - over 9 million passengers travelled on the Glasgow Subway in its first full year of operation.
When the Subway opened, a fixed fare price of one penny allowed passengers to travel around the six and a half mile long subway as many times as they wished. Many passengers had taken full advantage of this on the inaugural day - including the 14-year-old boy who suffered the severe head injury at 11pm, who, it’s said, had been travelling round and round the system for 8 or 9 hours prior to the collision. The fixed rate was soon abolished in favour of a fare stage system to avoid future congestion.
Save a refurbishment in the late 1970s which saw the system nicknamed “the Clockwork Orange” on account of its circular route and bright new Metro-Cammell orange carriages, the Glasgow Subway remains largely unaltered. Expansion of the six and half mile long, fifteen station circuit has been discussed on numerous occasions but has never come to fruition.
Recently Subway bosses gave a sneak peek inside new driverless trains set to be on the tracks next year, get a glimpse of it on the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XsV_VVPfwY
Interviewer: What are your interests?
Me: Well...abandoned theatres, converted cinemas and spooky disused underground stations
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