NS5667 : Hillhead subway station
near to Partick, Glasgow, Great Britain

Hillhead subway station
The ticket office at the station which is currently undergoing extensive renovation.
The Glasgow Subway
The Glasgow Subway opened in 1896 and is the third oldest underground railway in the world, predated by the London and Budapest systems.
It is a very simple system consisting of fifteen stations arranged in a 10.4Km loop around the centre and west side of the city. There are two lines; the Inner Circle and the Outer Circle which run in parallel tunnels through each of the stations. The lines run entirely under ground and pass under the Clyde twice.
The four foot gauge is very uncommon and is due to the small tunnel size. The trains themselves are also small, even toy-like when compared with those on major metro systems around the world.
Here is a Linkto a geograph article which provides more information about the subway.
year taken
2012
TIP: Click the map for Large scale mapping
Change to interactive Map >
Change to interactive Map >
- Grid Square
- NS5667, 192 images (more nearby)
- Photographer
- Thomas Nugent (find more nearby)
- Image classification?
- Supplemental image
- Date Taken
- Saturday, 4 August, 2012 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Sunday, 5 August, 2012
- Geographical Context
- Subject Location
-
OSGB36:
NS 5661 6705 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:52.5124N 4:17.6073W - Photographer Location
-
OSGB36:
NS 5661 6705 - View Direction
- EAST (about 90 degrees)
Looking for a postcode? Try this page
This page has been viewed about 41 times.
View this location:
KML (Google Earth) ·
Google Maps
·
OS Map Checksheet ·
Geograph Map ·
More Links for this image
![Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved]](http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif)
