Subway
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of three Glasgow subway carriages, along with approximately 770 related objects that include operation items like uniforms, tickets, ticket machines, maps and station fixtures. The collection dates from 1896 until 1991. This collection, the finest of its kind, charts the history of the world’s third underground system after London and Budapest, and the first to use a cable traction system. The collection boasts three subway carriages that date from the pre-1977 modernisation of the subway: two from 1896 and one from 1898. There are approximately 350 items relating to the former Merkland Street Station. These include a station master’s office and related equipment, display boards, lighting, track, third rail and vehicle electricity supply rails, platform flag stones, station identification and track signage, a ticket office window, a cigarette vending machine and signalling equipment. Other equipment includes a cable gripper, an Arrol gantry crane hook, track fixings and sleepers. More modern items, dating from 1991, consist of ticketing and barrier equipment. Further supporting material includes approximately 300 photographs, 100 tickets, promotional material, maps, guides, manuals and 23 scientific instruments from Pinkston Power Station, which was used to power Glasgow Corporation Transport’s services, including the subway, following electrification in 1935.
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