The SPT Subway is an underground rail system serving stations in and around Glasgow city centre. Trains are fast and frequent. At peak times, services run every 4 minutes. At off-peak periods, trains are every 6-8 minutes.
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At over 120 years old, Glasgow's Subway tunnel system is the third oldest underground urban railway still in operation in the world.
Subway. The subway is one of the easiest ways to get around the city centre, west end and southside of Glasgow. Running every 4 minutes at peak times, it takes just 24 minutes to complete a circuit of the 15 stations. Visit the Strathclyde Partnershp for Transport (SPT) website for more information.
Originally known as the Glasgow District Subway, the system was renamed the Glasgow Underground in 1936. In 2003 the name Subway was officially readopted by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) who run it as the name had stuck. Its nickname is the Clockwork Orange.
The circle is entirely underground although the depth varies between 7 feet below the surface between Kinning Park [Subway] and Cessnock [Subway], and 155 feet below Glasgow Street near Hillhead [Subway]. It passes under the River Clyde twice and the tunnels are lined in cast iron or mass concrete.