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by **purplegrum** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 12:38 am

martin wrote:Why not incorporate it into a pub crawl?
http://www.subcrawl.co.uk

That's a great idea, but you'd have to go back the next day and retake pics the last couple of stations most probably

by **martin** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:38 am

purplegrum wrote:That's a great idea, but you'd have to go back the next day and retake pics the last couple of stations most probably

Most lilkely.. we filmed it and made a wee programme about it for the student tv station (which you can find on that site), and as you get towards the latter stops, the camerawork gets dodgier, and the amount of time spent filming in each pub decreases quite a bit (as the amount of time spent drinking increased a tad)

by **purplegrum** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:43 am

martin wrote:
purplegrum wrote:That's a great idea, but you'd have to go back the next day and retake pics the last couple of stations most probably
Most lilkely.. we filmed it and made a wee programme about it for the student tv station (which you can find on that site), and as you get towards the latter stops, the camerawork gets dodgier, and the amount of time spent filming in each pub decreases quite a bit (as the amount of time spent drinking increased a tad)

:) yeah actually I saw it on the site and was mentioning it to rory yesterday.

I'm up for buying a discovery ticket and going photographing if any other HG folk are?

by **Fossil** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:45 am

purplegrum wrote:................................
I'm up for buying a discovery ticket and going photographing if any other HG folk are?

Sounds good pg, I think this could be a HG tour someday soon. Dont
forget about doors open day in September

Fossil

by **purplegrum** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:55 am

The Modern Fossil wrote:
purplegrum wrote:................................
I'm up for buying a discovery ticket and going photographing if any other HG folk are?

Sounds good pg, I think this could be a HG tour someday soon. Dont
forget about doors open day in September

Fossil

Excellent - I want to go on an HG tour coz I've missed all of Ronnie's Necropolis tours.

by **martin** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:11 am

Spot the difference

purplegrum wrote:

by **purplegrum** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:38 am

Whole load of Gust people on the platform?

by **martin** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:46 am

Nope, only two of em - the rest were other subcrawlers trying to beat subcrawl.co.uk's world record...

by **Targer** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 2:22 pm

Ah, Shields Rd I knew it well. Now the whole area around it has been demolished all for the ill conceived highway through the centre of the city. The demographics of the area has been destroyed forever. All thanks to Glasgow City council and their planning dept. at Bothwell St.

by **JamesMc** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 3:13 pm

Here's an opinion piece on the subway from the ET. Some good points,but if this guy thinks the stations are difficult to locate, dirty and uninviting now, he must not have ridden on or seen the pics of them just prior to the refurbishment!

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/lo/features/7014659.html

Jamesmc.

by **james73** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:25 pm

Must be a slow news week if this guy's a guest columnist...

He cites a fall in passenger numbers in the month of July as inexorable
proof that the system is in decline. Arsepiece.

He also says "Conceived at a time when the population of the city was
physically smaller, the trains are cramped and uncomfortable" - that's
right, them Victorians were all pure midgets by the way, and we're all
giants... Personally, I dont find the trains uncomfortable at all.

"Expansion plans have always been frustrated by lack of money and
political will" - mostly money, mate. The cost of another loop, as shown
below, would be astronomical, as would increasing the bore of the current
tunnels to provide larger trains.

Maybe his car is in the garage this week or somethin... :roll:

James H

by **purplegrum** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:38 pm

I've just bought an interesting looking book online called 'Circles Under The Clyde' which looks to be of a similar idea to the Glasgow Subway Album. Has anybody heard of this book before?

Grum

by **StevenJ** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:48 pm

I bought this book following a couple of threads on HG. In fact, I have bought a number of books following threads on HG

by **james73** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:14 pm

purplegrum wrote:I've just bought an interesting looking book online called 'Circles Under The Clyde' which looks to be of a similar idea to the Glasgow Subway Album. Has anybody heard of this book before?

Grum

Yep. Page 212 has that image I posted above.... ::):

James H

by **StevenJ** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:04 pm

Anyone else interested in buying it, look here

Not sure how I found the bookshop, but I ordered the book, and had it a few days later. I think Postage was about £1.70.

An absolute bargain in my opinion....I think it may be out of print now....

regards

Steven

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