GLASGOW'S DISUSED RAILWAYS - Clydebank to Partick 1982, by Douglas Thomson

A very rare 1080p high definition slide show of the entire route of this historical line, between the above locations.
The views are entirely from my own fully restored original colour collection from 1982, and every former station and main structure on the line is included. Today, most of the route is a popular and tidy, but rather plain and functional-looking cycle path, retaining very little of its former nostalgic atmosphere that's seen here.

[@gixxercorona]

Great pictures , always wondered what the view were like , your pictures
Bring the imagination to life 👍🏻

[@douglasthomson513]

Thanks for your Kind comments!

[@MrScotia]

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!!

[@southcalder]

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.

[@davidgraham7932]

That was smashing. Cheers mate.

[@agordonforme6797]

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.

[@alisonlee3314]

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

[@barrythedieselelectricstea5217]

excellent shots👍 so sad to see disused railway lines and stations that once where working😥

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

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.

[@luath5579]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[@Joshthetrainspotter85]

Wish they’d kept this

[@wrs10]

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.

[@columbamancera647]

Partick

[@MM0IMC]

Very sad.