The irony, of course, is that the Riverside Museum in home to Glasgow's transport museum, and there had previously been talk about seeing if these lines could be used to run a heritage tram along this section of the waterfront.
Old tram lines (I think) running along the north bank of the Clyde in Glasgow photographed January 2025 (top), and the same lines photographed today. They've been removed as part of work currently going on between the old Queen's Dock Hydraulic Pump house and the Riverside Museum. Until this happened, this was probably the longest surviving stretch of tram lines left in the city.
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By then, the Snow Bridge only led to Kelvingrove Park and Glasgow University's Gilmorehill Campus, as it still does to this day. This is a nice example of how Glasgow's streets and roads have been adapted and changed over time as new modes of transport were introduced.
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The two bridges across the Kelvin just east of Partick. The older stone bridge, known as the Snow Bridge, was built around 1800 and carried the main road heading west over the river. After the crossing, the road turned sharply to the south (see left hand map).
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Love this re-use of this old tram rosette on a tenement on Victoria Road in Glasgow. Originally these would have been used to support the mechanism from which the electricity lines hung that powered the city's trams before the network was shut down in the early 1960s.
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A stone tramway leading up Cleveden Crescent Lane in the west of Glasgow. Consisting of slabs of smoothed granite, they reduced the friction between cartwheels and cobbled streets, while the setts in between the tramways provided grip for the horses' hooves. This allowed one horse to pull what it would otherwise take two horses to move.
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The Glasgow Wake Park in Port Dundas on the Glasgow arm Forth and Clyde Canal. Opened in 2015 as part of the Pinkston Watersports Centre, it's built in an area once dominated by chemical works, factories, foundries and the Pinkston Power Station, which was built in 1900 to supply electricity to Glasgow's extensive tram network when it was electrified in time for the 1901 International Exhibition in Kelvingrove Park.
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The former Battlefield Tram Shelter looking as magnificent as ever in yesterday's sunshine. Designed by Frank Burnet and Boston, and built in 1914, the original plan was to erect similar tram shelters across Glasgow. However, this was the only one which was ever built.
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Saint Mungo gazing out across Pollokshaws Road from Saint Ninian's Church in Glasgow, with the fish with the ring in its mouth below him, and the remains of a tram rosette (used to support electrical wires for Glasgow's tram system) just to his left. I've often wondered what people made of these being attached to churches when they were first installed at the end of the 19th Century.
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In Britain, this started with the creation of the Birkenhead Tramway in the 1860s, which, rather oddly, was built by the American George Francis Train!
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