Glasgow Queen Street to Glasgow Central - Pointless Journeys
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- A highly requested pointless journey! Glasgow Queen Street to Glasgow Central!
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Mine and Natt's Scotland trip continues!
I've had this one requested a hell of a lot 😂
lol 😂
@@Matthewlikestrains772lol
I was going to suggest that journey.
@TrainandliftfanIf he does lots of the same in the same area it will get quite repetitive so he probably won’t be doing anymore Glasgow ones for now at least
its pronouced DALMUIR
you could of done 2 pointless journeys in 1.
Singer to Clydebank
One day, you'll be sure to bump into Geoff Marshall.
Or Scott from “Planes, Trains & Everything” when in Scotland
@@davidthorne7712
Oh yes. Him.
He's usually going to Ireland or Bulgaria on a bus.
Jago also does some good videos on here.
@@toddhunter3137
Jago's just a voice though, not a proper human.
@@lewis72 Granted. It would be nice to see Jago. But his videos are still informative and sarcastically funny at times. Surely you agree.
I remember the first time I went to Scotland, I was staying near Glasgow and traveling up through the north (with its criminally underfunded railways), I wasn't sure what to expect transport-wise, but I got there and immediately found that there were loads of trains and they're all electric, and that's the last time I ever underestimated Scotland
Maybe next time youll estimate it.
We’ve got lamp posts and all sorts mate. Shops that sell vibrators to paint brushes. We’ve got everything up here, part fae freedom.
Auch ayeeee the noooooo
Second award, you survived dalmuir, you are now immune to almost every disease now known to humankind
Aye true
If you struggled with pronouncing Dalmuir, it's just as well you didn't go to Milngavie.
Dunno man. I sent 9 American Tourists to Parkhead and told them “our Ancestors would say ‘Big Jock Knew”
I told them Big Jock was William Wallace’s wing man, so they understood the importance.
Shout it loudly my man 😂❤
😂😂😂
So, very technically, Glasgow Central and Glasgow Central Low Level are treated officially as two separate stations. The surface station is managed by Network Rail as one of their major stations (like Edinburgh Waverley or London Waterloo), but the low level is a different station managed by ScotRail. While they have a continuous platform numbering scheme, by the letter of law you completed your entry to Glasgow Central on foot.
What you should have done was went Queen Street to Cumbernauld, Cumbernauld to Motherwell and Motherwell to Glasgow Central (High Level, on a train originating in Lanark). Or even Haymarket (yes, in Edinburgh) and back to Glasgow Central (via Shotts or Carstairs).
The quickest train journey between Queen Street and Central is to take low level from Queen Street to Partick, change platform and take another low level train from Partick to Central
or just walk the 7/8 mins?
There's a bus for those who don't want to walk the short distance between the 2 stations
You could’ve gone from Queen St. Low Level direct to Partick via the Balloch, Helensburgh and Milngavie lines to Partick or from Buchanan St to Partick on the Subway. Simply walk from Queen Street directly into Buchanan St. It makes Kings X - St. P look like crossing a desert.
There’s a lot of random art at Partick devoted to Budd Neil. The gable ends facing Morrisons and Partick are covered in murals from his comic strip and the statue by the ticket machines at the escalators is of GI Bride- another of his creations. There’s also that 2 legged horse of his somewhere near the YHA.
And of course, there's Billy Conolly stuff.
Fantastic place, Glasgow. Amazing people.
Queen Street upper to lower takes stairs...the other easier option would be queen st upper to Waverley to Glasgow central upper level (possibly via mornington crescent!)
@@StreakyP Ah. If you play Charing Cross, according to Stobold's Temporal Anomaly you can discombobulate the Spacetime continuum and be in both places at once before you even left.
I was brought up in Dalmuir. Clydebank is famous for ship building and Singer is also in Clydebank, famous for making sewing machines.
YES Subway loop!!! Great job! Possibly my favourite Pointless Journey yet! Love the multimodal ones.
Pointless Journey suggestion: Kings Cross - St Pancras! This route would be fun considering they are very very different stations but are so close together, so much so that they share the same tube station.
I had the Interrail planner app tell me to do this by public transport…
@FeoragForsyth I tried looking on Google Maps and it just said to walk. I can think of plenty of pointless journeys to try.
Kings Cross
Finsbury Park
Highbury & Islington
Willesden Junction
Watford Junction
Bedford
St Pancras
It is easier if you are happy to arrive in the Thameslink Station, otherwise Bedford is the first useful interchange with another line.
@@katrinabryce kk
@@katrinabryceyou can’t get from watford junction to Bedford without changing at bletchley, and the marston vale line doesn’t currently run anything other than an hour long bus replacement service x
It's quite mad to think that every station you stopped at; Anniesland, dalmuir and Patrick ( national rail and subway) you could get a train to both glasgow queen st and central.
Cool video guys! Singer station named after the old Singer Sewing Machine factory (ask your parents/grandparents😊)
They still exist, for those who want to sew.
Nick, Glasgow has had excellent rail coverage and frequency for decades, primarily due to the amount of electrified lines and the efficiencies and reliability that came with that. You'll be aware that Liverpool's electrified network is similar. Other cities like Birmingham (minimal AC electrification) and Manchester (DC overhead) weren't so fortunate when it came to the choices LMS, BR etc made and are playing catch up. The clockwork orange is fun too.
We sort-of did this as a not-pointless-but-roundabout trip when we attended the 2005 World Science Fiction Convention at the then-SECC in Glasgow. We arrived by rail at Queen Street, and rather than walk to Central (as we did have rail passes), we went from Queen Street to Partik, then changed to a train to Exhibition Centre.
I'd much rather wait for a train at Queen Street than Central Low Level, it's much less claustrophobic.
There are a few ways of doing this. You can take the short way from the low level to Partick and back to the other low level, or you can take a high level train to Cumbernauld, down to Motherwell and back to Central High level.
Another brilliant video!! Imagine if Glasgow still had it’s trams! 😢
Outside of London Glasgow has the second largest commuter network in Britain. Loved living around West Scotland as most trains operate on a half hourly basis.
I was there as a tourist and the train service seemed pretty good, both in and around Glasgow (with the two city tunnels) and between Queen Street and Edinburgh.
I live in Glasgow and I don't like the half hour frequency as before covid it was every 15mins alternating via Queen Street and Central
You survived thr maryhill line, you should get an award.
Another good video, enjoyed the subway circle. Trip suggestion: Waterloo - Waterloo East
When you hopped on that Central-bound train I was very concerned… but then I checked the video length and realised that a Subway ride must be in order!! 😂
Glasgow has the UKs largest suburban rail network outside of London.
Visiting Glasgow this week. I did this one today except I went queen street to Partick. One loop of subway and then partick to central.
Queen Street High Level to Central High Level
The option with the least changes is via Edinburgh.
Otherwise:
Greenfaulds or Cumbernauld
Motherwell
Central, but that requires taking an English train
or Greenfaulds/Cumbernauld
Whifflet
Rutherglen
Newton
Central
There is a plan to revamp the Clockwork Orange so that Queen Street and Central would be linked at at last, but it not being London, there’s no date or money for it actually happening.
Yessss i see nick Badley and class 385 I click the video 👍👍
A pointless challenge you can no longer undertake. RGIT St Andrews St in Aberdeen used to occupy am entire city block. There was a bus route that went round three sides of the building with two stops one at the front, one at the rear. You could theoretically save shoe leather by taking a bus from the front of the building to rear.
You could try Farnborough Main to Farnborough North. Two routes so spoilt for choice. Excellent again!
And as if to prove just how close stations are in Glasgow? I noticed that shot from the paltform of Glasgow Central (lowlevel) through the tunnel to where you can see the platforms at Argyle Street.
Ive taken that same shot myself 😂
Glad to see how much you appreciate the 'lowlevel' and the Subway.
Those trains were my childhood 😅 except when i was a kid the 320s were still pretty new (and 303 'Blue trains' - though they where orange and black by then - were still kicking about)
Or as it was called Strathclyde Red lol.
I think the runtime Central to Argyle St is about 45secs
Get your cat to sort out that bum fluff 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fun little pointless challenge! I can think of a few other pointless journeys in my neck of the woods. Catford to Catford Bridge (a 30 second walk, separate lines), and Bromley North to Bromley South - more like a 10-15 minute walk but no direct rail route between then!
im loving Anniesland & Partick & i loving the Glasgow subway and Glasgows rail network looks amazing with fequent train services & i wouldnt mind smashing a load of stations around Glasgow one day anyway brilliant poiintless journey
Singer station was named cause it was built right next to the old Singer Sewing Machine factory, and the station has now outlasted the factory by several decades.
Hi Nick. I would recommend Nottingham (National Rail) to Nottingham (Tram)
Train to Bulwell or Hucknall and tram to Nottingham National Rail? I used to live there.
@@neilbain8736 yes. that's the exact route I was thinking of
This reminds me of another TH-camr called ‘planes, trains everything’ who travelled from Glasgow Central low level to Glasgow Queen Street low level via Partick
Glasgow has a awesome rail network but makes me wonder if there a plan to do it in reverse from Glasgow Central (High Level) to Glasgow Queen Street (low level) one day? Great Video Nick!
That would just be taking the first train out of Partick rather than the third.
Could do
Central to Edinburgh via Shotts
Edinburgh to Falkirk Grahamston
Falkirk Grahamston to Queen St via Cumbernauld
Or
Central to Edinburgh via Motherwell
Edinburgh to Larbert/Stirling
Stirling/Larbert to Queen St via Croy
@bazzacuda_ Coatbridge Central to Coatbridge Sunnyside.
CBC to Motherwell
Motherwell to Anniesland
Anniesland to Queen St HL
Queen St LL to Sunnyside
A not quite complete rail journey but interesting nevertheless would be to go to Upper Tyndrum on the Fort William line and then walk downhill to Tyndrum Lower on the Oban line. Tyndrum must be the smallest settlement to have 2 railway stations on 2 different lines. I’m sure your crew will know if that is indeed the case. I very much enjoy your content.
Pointless journey suggestion: Sudbury Hill station on the Piccadilly and Sudbury Hill on chiltern. Same goes for sudbury town and sudbury and harrow road
A journey between the two high level stations would be more interesting. To reach Central would be Queen St-Cumbernauld, Cumbernauld-Motherwell and Motherwell-Central using one of the services that does not take the Argyle Line, such as Lanark-Glasgow or the through Edinburgh-Carstairs-Motherwell-Central-Paisley-Ayr service.
I like how you made the pointless journey even more pointless by doing a loop with the subway.
Now it a pointless-squared journey.
Try St Budeaux Victoria Road to St Budeaux Ferry Road in Plymouth. Station entrances exactly 10m apart. Takes almost 2 hours via Plymouth station
My local station growing up its easy to say, Dal-Muir put it all together and you've got Dalmuir. I say local it was about 15min walk down the road.
A pointless journey if you're ever in Scotland again could be Edinburgh Waverley to Edinburgh Waverley on the Fife Circle line. You would have to buy a return ticket for "Glenrothes with Thornton" (furthest away point). The journey would take you across the Forth Rail Bridge in both directions. You can remain on the train for the full journey.
You mean the Forth Bridge ; the other bridges are the Forth Road Bridge and the Queensferry Crossing ; the original bridge is simply the Forth Bridge .
I like watching your journeys well done looking forward to more
Hi Nick mate another excellent video of pointless journeys. I really enjoyed the video very much. Thank you for making the video.
A thoroughly enjoyable short video
You should do Wakefield Kirkgate to Wakefield Westgate. You would have to go to Huddersfield, Leeds, Castleford way round from Kirkgate. Or, some other convoluted route.
My work colleague grew up in Possilpark. He said it was seriously rough as a child. He told me his local sweet shop had a metal wired fence inside with an opening like a letterbox you could pay and receive your sweets. I went a few years ago and found it. No metal fence instead it has a full double-glazed divide with the same letterbox opening. The owner and sweets on one side and you on the other.
I have a shop near me in Summerston, its still like that (2 stops after possilpark
Back in the mid eighties I had a delivery job that took me to every area in greater Glasgow and Possil was the worst.
Another one to try - not very exciting though as quite simple - Bradford to Bradford.
DAL-M-YOUR! You really do have to roll that final R to get it right! I guess then, if you wanted to arrive at Glasgow Central High Level, you'd have to do something like Greenfaulds - Whifflet - Cambuslang - Hamilton Circle - Motherwell...?? Yes, there are lots of rails and stations - but that's POST-Beeching - and only a small part of the former Glasgow Central Railway was reopened as the Argyll Line in 1979; there used to be an awful lot more of them when the Stobhill - Dumbarton East [Riverside] line and its' associated Maryhill Central & Possil branches, the Bridgeton - Carmyle - Whifflet High Level & Newton lines; those approaching St Enoch and Buchanan Street termini, the Hyndland, Clydebank East,. Bridgeton Central, Bothwell [NB and CR], Airdrie South, Govan, Renfrew Ferry, Kilmacolm and Paisley District lines were still open - to name just a few! Oh, and did you know that the former sewing machine factory at Singer had a short works branch - with a further five platforms?
These are my favourite of your videos. You should do
Birmingham New St to Birmingham Snow Hill/Moor Street.
Looks like you guys had fun. Never done the railways in Scotland before.
I have been to Glasgow queen street but never Glasgow central
love your videos so relaxing to watch
When you got out at Partick, I thought you were going to visit the Riverside museum! (I think it's pretty cool how Glasgow's transport museum is next to its - and Scotland's, I think - busiest stretch of railway line)
Glasgow Central station is a 5min walk from Queen Station...so no need for the two trains and Subway
By the very definition this really was a pointless journey when the railway provides a free bus service to travel the 3 streets between the 2 stations which including traffic lights takes 7 minutes
Clydebank, Dalmuir, Drumry and Singer are all stations in the town of Clydebank. Fwiw.
I once did Queen Street to Central, I went via Edinburgh Waverly.
Thought, what would be more pointless than going between two nearby stations? Going between high and low levels within the same station.
Great video in pointless journeys. nick. Hope yous joy trip up in Scotland . And I am big fan of your channel
They are technically connected indirectly via the clockwork orange (less than 5 minutes walk from each station to the underground stations that serve them)
I was born in Partick. Nice to see you did a bit on the subway and the sub surface lines. 😊
The 2 stations are only about a 10min walk between each other
If you wanted to do Queen street high level to central high level, you go:
Queen street - Greenfaulds
Greenfaulds - Newton
Newton - Central
It takes exactly 2 hours
Not sure why this video popped up but for once TH-cam got it right..lol This takes me back to when I arrived in Glesga in the 90s in my early 20s. I'd often end up on the wrong trains, missing the right stops and going in circles on the underground...lol
How about Inverness to Inverness Airport via Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen. A bit pointless as you could take the short cut
It didn't need to be that complex. Train to Partick, cross over, train to Central
If you were looking for a bit of adventure, you should have got off at Possilpark or Summerston on the way to Anniesland!
I have got a poinless journey for you to do that i wanted to tell you for a while but i couldn't be bothered but here it is: Edgware Road (terminus) to Edgware Road via the whole circle line, obviously this is a really stuoid journey as tou can just walk it but i would love to see you do it
Maybe not the best idea, but Livingston North to Livingston South? Just a wee suggestion. Also, If you do do glasgow centrak high level to low level (or Queen Street) Maybe try going the opposite direction (towards Edinburgh) next time
Sad that Edinburgh removed all its railways in the city cos theres loads of intressting routes you could have done in the past
Glasgow has the densest rail network in the UK outside of London. 4th oldest subway in the world too.
Density of stations - after London, Glasgow has the largest commuter rail network in the UK.
Can't believe I've only just thought of it, but St Pancras to King's Cross.
Idea for a pointless journey: St. Albans Abbey to St. Albans City, then walk from St. Albans City back to St. Albans Abbey
Yes mate. If knew you was coming to Glasgow I'd have came and met you
Edgware Road (Bakerloo) to Edgware Road (Sub Surface
Pointless journey suggestions: Hertford East to Hertford North, Watford (Met) to Watford Junction, St Albans City to St Albans Abbey, Bradford Interchange to Bradford Forster Square.
I’d also like to add a suggestion of Enfield Town to Enfield Chase to this list. You can walk between them in less than ten minutes, with the two stations being on completely different lines!
@JeSuisRene Yep and there's also Enfield Lock on the West Anglian main line. Also, Oakwood station on the Piccadilly line used to be called Enfield West.
Love these pointless journeys surely they dont work as simple as they look
surely for maximum pointlessness, the route should have been Queen street high level via queen street low level to glasgow central
Manchester Picc to Man Ox Rd, could do: Man Picc - Huddersfield - Dewsbury - Man Vic - Liverpool L St (or Warrington BQ) - Man Ox Rd
Clydebank is obviously where Bonnie and partner stashed all the money
If you didn't live or work in Dalmuir, probably going to Dalmuir itself would be quite a pointless journey.
Do Runcorn to Runcorn East, that would be a fun one!
It is by the way on the Clyde
(On the first train) announcemens: the next station is (station name). Safety information *music starts*
Can think of 2 pointless journeys
1. Meadowhall platform 1and 2 to Meadowhall platform 3and 4 but not via Sheffield
And
2. Gainsborough lea Rd to Gainsborough Central or vis versa
Ypu actually did the loop of the subwzy in the opposite direction to the way it was shown in the animation.
Points off for that in addition to the ones you lost for your execrable mispronunciation of Dalmuir (even after hearing the correct version!)
Orr, just train to Edinburgh from queen street and then the train back to central
honestly baffled by the struggle with "Dalmuir" - do you not have the surname "Muir" in England?! It's literally "Dal" followed by that - dalmure
also I hope you used the roundabout ticket! - £7.40 for all day trains and subway, unavailable online so has to be bought at ticket machines by typing "Roundabout" as destination and physically stamped by ticket officer for subway
Wow that Roundabout ticket sounds very handy, a shame we didn’t know about it at the time 😂, at least we know for next time thanks! 😁
Yeah. Frank Muir. English.
how did i miss this
you managed to survive possil
Glasgow Queen street, change trains at Anniesland, take train to Larkhall, arrive Glasgow central.
Glasgow, Queen Street, to Anniesland is not a pointless journey, it is a very important branch,line
Heath High Level to Heath Low Level perhaps around the Vale of Glamorgan line to Bridgend. Back up the main line and a hop onto Heath train at Cardiff? 🤔
Honestly through you'd go from one of the Low level stations to one of the high level stations.
How about glasgow queen street low level to springburn, springburn to queen street then a train from queen street high level to haymarket , then haymarket to glasgow central high via shotts (that doesnt stop at cambuslang) get a train to newton then switch to a dalmuir bound train for the low level does all four
gonna get a lot of this but is "Dalm-your"
Pointless journey idea: Southend Central to Southend Victoria
Technically you could have taken the Subway from Buchanan Street (at Queen Street) alighting at St. Enoch (at Central). It's only 1 stop and every Subway train every 4 minutes at peak hour. Interesting pronunciation of Dalmuir btw (Dal-m'your) 😂😂
I’ve just stumbled across this. As a Glaswegian myself.. this is an odd video to stumble across, I’m not going to lie. What’s the reason behind taking my trains about? Haha! Is this just like a train passion project thing? Also, aren’t most trains in England electric too? Past few times I’ve been down there, not too much is different. But then again, I’ve only really went to London so maybe that’s the difference. Anyway, just had to ask those other things. Cheers!