In the last 100 years, transport around Glasgow has changed so much - trams and trolley buses have been replaced with motor-buses, there’s a whole new swathe of train stations along the railway, and the Subway? Well the subway’s not changed too much.
Here in Glasgow transport holds a special place in our heart, creating transport in the form of ships was a massive part of Glaswegian culture for generations. We can see just how much we treasure vintage transport in Glasgow at the transport exhibition at Riverside Museum, and of course the former Museum of Transport at Kelvin Hall.
That’s why today we wanted to look at the future of transport in Glasgow - to see just how much things are going to change in 10 years.
From driverless subway carriages to the new metro system - here’s how transport in Glasgow will change in the next decade.
9. Bonus: What Glasgow’s transport could have looked like
The Railplane was a crazy sci-fi invention by George Bennie - an obscure inventor destined to be forgotten by history after his invention never took off. Exhibiting the mad reverse monorail in Milngavie in 1930, it was accelerated and brought to a halt by propellers on either end of the carriage and would hang above the existing railway lines - whizzing above traditional steam trains. Unfortunately for Bennie, he was a bit too ahead of his time, and secured no investors for the project - meaning the only existing Railplane was the prototype in Milngavie, which was sold for scrap in the 1950’s. | Getty Images