Transport Tales

When we were very much younger we could take a tour of Glasgow on the Underground or the Subway as it was always called.For one single old penny we could travel to all fifteen stations. The greatest thrill was from Merkland Street to Govan Cross which meant actually travelling under the River Clyde.Imagine the thrill to a young boy to know he was really travelling under water and our imagination running wild at the thought of the tunnel collapsing trapping everybody on board. I think we scared ourselves to bits with the thought. But, of course, it never did.When we saw the conductor coming on his rounds we would hide in the compartment at the end of the train, known to us as "the single end", crouched down under the boarding so that if he missed us we could travel the whole fifteen stations once more. It really became an excursion for us this way. Oh!! the wonderful smell at the entrance and exit of each station, a smell to live with us forever. I have never smelled it in any other place in my travels.van bike young drivers skip hire cost skip hire cost skip hire cost young drivers young drivers bike bike bike bike van van.

When we were very much younger we could take a tour of Glasgow on the Underground or the Subway as it was always called.For one single old penny we could travel to all fifteen stations. The greatest thrill was from Merkland Street to Govan Cross which meant actually travelling under the River Clyde.Imagine the thrill to a young boy to know he was really travelling under water and our imagination running wild at the thought of the tunnel collapsing trapping everybody on board. I think we scared ourselves to bits with the thought. But, of course, it never did.When we saw the conductor coming on his rounds we would hide in the compartment at the end of the train, known to us as "the single end", crouched down under the boarding so that if he missed us we could travel the whole fifteen stations once more. It really became an excursion for us this way. Oh!! the wonderful smell at the entrance and exit of each station, a smell to live with us forever. I have never smelled it in any other place in my travels.