What is the nickname for the Glasgow Underground?

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.



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While the Clockwork Orange nickname is often used in tourist guidebooks and local literature, it is virtually unused by locals, who will refer to the system simply as the Subway or the Underground.

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Most of its carriages were painted orange (although called Strathclyde PTE red because Orange has sectarian connotations in Glasgow), the corporate colour of Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive at the time.

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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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Opened on 14 December 1896, it is the third-oldest underground rail transit system in Europe after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro.

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A gang of four teenage boys drink Milk Plus, which is said to be milk laced with drugs such as LSD, mescaline, or amphetamines. Drugs are not shown onscreen. Characters drink wine or smoke in a couple of scenes.

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Stanley Kubrick withdrew A Clockwork Orange from distribution in Great Britain in the wake of concern about the violence in the film.

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The film was met with polarised reviews from critics and was controversial due to its depictions of graphic violence. After it was cited as having inspired copycat acts of violence, the film was withdrawn from British cinemas at Kubrick's behest, and it was also banned in several other countries.

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Baker Street is a London Underground station at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster. It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world's first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863.

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  • The world's busiest passenger station, with a passenger throughput of 3.5 million passengers per day (1.27 billion per year), is Shinjuku Station in Tokyo.
  • The world's station with most platforms is Grand Central Terminal in New York City with 44 platforms.


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The Metropolitan line is the oldest underground railway in the world. The Metropolitan Railway opened in January 1863 and was an immediate success, though its construction took nearly two years and caused huge disruption in the streets.

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Glasgow Central remains Scotland's busiest railway station.

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