Absolutely fascinating! You've captured and given me a peak into the past. It's amazing how much has changed that's why people like you are so valuable in stamping that moment for people like me to reference. I was born in 1979 but remember certain aspects of this from about 1988 while out with my late grandpa. We used to walk some of these track beds. The tracks were still there to Dalmuir Bond - a spur off the Clydebank electric line (and old connection to the long-defunct Caledonian railway) until I think about 1993. Your other slides are equally as wonderful to look at. I sat on Google maps the other night tracing your "Possil to Dalmarnock" slide video and could make out very few still existing locations. It actually showed me as this does just how run down Glasgow was, especially in the 1980s. Thanks for putting this together :-)
This is an amazing collection of photos! Myself being born in 1996 and always having had an interest in the railway that used to lie on the now National Cycle Route 7 path between Clydebank & Partick, this is incredible to see for the first time. Especially getting to 'travel' via the Scotstoun West-Yoker Ferry section instead of the Yoker sidings direction of the cycle path. I've explored as much as I could in the present day but a fair amount of the ex-railway line is completely different now (large sections having been totally built over with housing blocks and with removal of bridges). Thanks for sharing!
I still cycle along the old railway track in scotstoun, it is a cycle path now but some of the walls that run along it and some of the old metal railings are still there
I though about it Peter, but there's just so few remaining features left to compare with today, but at least this section is now a well-used cycle-path (albeit mostly hidden by overgrown foliage), with the remainder from Scotstoun West to Clydebank just about passable on foot with a narrow dirt-track though tall trees and bushes.
Hi Douglas! Just come across your fascinating series on Glasgow railway’s. Can you recommend any books referring to the Glasgow central line particularly around botanic garden’s station etc? Thanks Phil
Hi Phil thanks for your kind comment. Books about Glasgow's lines have tended to come and go with fleeting regularity, so it's probably best to google in what you're looking for, generally and to specific sites like ebay or specialist online rail shops etc. You should be able to come up with some used past books fairly easily that way, so best of luck, as they do exist.
In my minds eye I can see people running up the steps at the station to catch the train, governments certainly don’t look after it’s people closing these lines
Absolutely fascinating! You've captured and given me a peak into the past. It's amazing how much has changed that's why people like you are so valuable in stamping that moment for people like me to reference. I was born in 1979 but remember certain aspects of this from about 1988 while out with my late grandpa. We used to walk some of these track beds. The tracks were still there to Dalmuir Bond - a spur off the Clydebank electric line (and old connection to the long-defunct Caledonian railway) until I think about 1993. Your other slides are equally as wonderful to look at. I sat on Google maps the other night tracing your "Possil to Dalmarnock" slide video and could make out very few still existing locations. It actually showed me as this does just how run down Glasgow was, especially in the 1980s. Thanks for putting this together :-)
Wow thankyou for posting this video. It brought back lots of childhood memories for me walking my dog along the old railway
This is an amazing collection of photos! Myself being born in 1996 and always having had an interest in the railway that used to lie on the now National Cycle Route 7 path between Clydebank & Partick, this is incredible to see for the first time. Especially getting to 'travel' via the Scotstoun West-Yoker Ferry section instead of the Yoker sidings direction of the cycle path. I've explored as much as I could in the present day but a fair amount of the ex-railway line is completely different now (large sections having been totally built over with housing blocks and with removal of bridges). Thanks for sharing!
These are fantastic pictures and record something historic that will be there for all to see many years ahead
so sad these grand old stations no longer in use part of our heritage disappearing before our eyes 😥
I still cycle along the old railway track in scotstoun, it is a cycle path now but some of the walls that run along it and some of the old metal railings are still there
what a little gem, you don't realise how much it has all changed, what about a 40th anniversary revisit?
I though about it Peter, but there's just so few remaining features left to compare with today, but at least this section is now a well-used cycle-path (albeit mostly hidden by overgrown foliage), with the remainder from Scotstoun West to Clydebank just about passable on foot with a narrow dirt-track though tall trees and bushes.
Hi Douglas! Just come across your fascinating series on Glasgow railway’s. Can you recommend any books referring to the Glasgow central line particularly around botanic garden’s station etc? Thanks Phil
Hi Phil thanks for your kind comment. Books about Glasgow's lines have tended to come and go with fleeting regularity, so it's probably best to google in what you're looking for, generally and to specific sites like ebay or specialist online rail shops etc. You should be able to come up with some used past books fairly easily that way, so best of luck, as they do exist.
@@douglasthomson513 many thanks Douglas!
I walked these lines in 1983 clearly remember this before cycle path took over.
Whereabouts was Yoker engine shed?
In my minds eye I can see people running up the steps at the station to catch the train, governments certainly don’t look after it’s people closing these lines
Loved the video