page_title: Glasgow Subway
section_title: Connections
hierarchical_section_title: Glasgow Subway / Connections
caption_attribution_description: English: Recreated Glasgow Subway entrance at the Riverside Museum
context_page_description: The Glasgow Subway is an underground medium-capacity rail system line in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened on 14 December 1896, it is the third-oldest underground metro system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro. It is also one of the very few railways in the world with a track running gauge of 4 ft. Formerly a cable railway, the subway was later electrified, but its two circular tracks were never expanded. The line was originally known as the Glasgow District Subway, but was later renamed Glasgow Subway Railway. It was so called when taken over by the Glasgow Corporation who renamed it the Glasgow Underground in 1936. Despite this rebranding, many Glaswegians continued to refer to the network as "the Subway". In 2003 the name "Subway" was officially readopted by its operator, the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. A £40,000 study examining the feasibility of an expansion into the city's south side was conducted in 2005 while a further commitment from Labour in 2007 to extend to the East End was also to no avail.
context_section_description: Before the modernisation, the Subway offered no formal connections to other transport at ground level, although in practice two stations, Merkland Street and Buchanan Street, were only a short walk from British Rail stations. These links were improved at this modernisation:-
  At Partick, the system connects with the North Clyde and Argyle lines of the Glasgow suburban railway network. This was achieved by physically relocating the original railway station at Partickhill, as well as moving and renaming the Merkland Street station.
  A connecting moving walkway, linking Buchanan Street station to Queen Street main-line station.
  Glasgow Central and Argyle Street railway stations (for the Argyle Line) are both a short walk from St Enoch Centre, and most stations connect with bus routes.
caption: Recreated Glasgow Subway station entrance at the Riverside Museum
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