Auld Glesga Trams & Buses

[viceroy]

These pictures do indeed bring back memories, Ken. Many thanks for posting up the links.

I think the pictures were probably taken not long after the garage opened, perhaps mid 1960’s. Interesting to see exclusively Leyland Atlanteans parked in the lyes. When I went to Partick Garage in 1968 that was the only type they had. But when I went back as a crew driver in 1973 they only had a small number of LA’s left and these were mostly used for one-man operation. However they had a sizeable contingent of old Leyland Titans which the crews had to use. These were a mixture of the original rear platform type and the later model with forward passenger doors. Not that I wanted to complain. I never liked the LA’s very much. The Titans were much nicer to drive.

I really like the office picture. The green staff entrance was just out of sight on the left, where the frosted glass panelling is. Two conductors can be seen cashing up. However I think this is probably a posed photograph rather than a random shot. To the right of the clock, again just out of sight, is the safe where you deposited your takings once counted. This was a highly polished brass drawer and there was also I think – it was so long ago – a device that stamped the pay-in time on your waybill.

The canteen looks as if it’s never been used. A couple of years and the tabletops will be chipped and scorched, there will be stains and cracks all over the linoleum floor, and the walls and ceilings will be covered in the kind of yellowish nicotine coating that only the fug from innumerable cigarettes can produce!

[Fossil]

Cheers for the info folks

and cheers Ken

[glasgowken]

Nice info there viceroy, cheers. The pics are from the annual report just after it opened.

[dimairt]

A few of my recent E-Bay purchases for you to place. I've no idea about the first two but do know the third.

Le durachd,

Eddy

[PATRICA1]

Hello Dimairt.I have been lookig at your stuff and found this book "The Glasgow Tramcar" by Ian Stewart it shows the first tram as heading to Renfrew ferry,I used the 29 to go to school in maryhill I used to get a theehalfpenny hauf there and back outside the maryhill barracks up to lennox st or the stop before and go into pop burns shop for a caramel or the blubird cafe, and walk hame at three,Ian.

[Dot]

I came across this by chance when I was looking up something else.
Looks like it may have been mentioned earlier on in this post but website has been updated in more recent times.

http://www.semple.biz/glasgow/uktrollymenu.shtml

Apologies if I haven't done enough searching.

[seppie]

having just looked at your page on Auld Glesga Trams and Buses,brought back fond memories as a child born in the 50s the old bone shakers as we fondly called them as a child raised in dalmuir west in clydebank the old tram depot was just a stones theow from where I was born,and when going to school the old turntable bridge at the bottom of mountblow road used to squeel sometimes and we used to stand and watch the turntable turning the trams in the opposite direction heading back into town,when I was a lot older i worked for the pte the old glasgow corporation transport dept,it sure brings back memories of a byegone age of transport

[glasgowken]

A few clips from Carla's Song, a 1996 film with Robert Carlyle as a Glasgow bus driver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZmecDKCQ1o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VqpvPW9j6M

[tombro]

Ken,

Are those clips from a movie, video or TV show ?

Either way, I'd love to get my hands on a copy, if only for the fact that the bus in part 1 was heading to Drumchapel and I'd love to try and figure out the route it was taking.

Any ideas ?

Tombro

[HollowHorn]

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/185419/C ... oduct.html

Though you may find it cheaper in Fopp or one of the 2nd hand shops.

[glasgowken]

I'm afraid it was a fictitious route, and service number. I could make out Hyndland Street, Hyndland Road, Highburgh Road ? Any others ?

Btw that's ALL the bus parts, there's no more on the full length film.

[tobester]

just watched the clips GK, the inspector at the end was funny

[BTJustice]

Not the best picture in the world as its a photo of a pretty dark slide but thought I would add it anyway.

Anybody recodnise the location?
Dave

[Sunflower]

Brand St Depot

Looks like serious demolition going on here - the back two sections at the western end (bottom pic) have bitten the dust already, courtesy of a giant digger thing, and there's more burnt-out roof awaiting their delicate attentions towards the front. (And it's not even a holiday weekend....)

It's so late I'm thinking Endangered Wildlife but the bods with the List of buildings at risk (ah! Register, is it?) had this one on their list when I was at their Doors Open Day-Week talk last year. Not that it helps, evidently. Pity it couldn't last till the next upturn, it would have made some nice digital studios for someone.

[Fossil]

aye clocked this on Tuesday. Its going going gone..