1975: How to FIX A GLASGOW SUBWAY TRAIN | Blue Peter | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

Love the mullet haircut.

They make cows out of glass in Scotland?

Didn't he have a cat

And now in 2023, the Subway is once more being modernised, with new trains entering service which will eventually be fully automated.

What a treat that was. I travelled on these just once in the weeks running up to the closure. A colleague was aghast that I'd never been aboard. So very glad I did it. Same colleague walked me through the original foot traffic only Clyde tunnel in the week or so before they closed it off permanently infilling with sand. That can still be experienced down in London as nearby to the Cutty Sark museum they have a version that could also carry horses with carts lowered/lifted by a lift table at either end. The buildings on the surface are identical in form and construction to those that still survive in Glasgow in red engineering bricks albeit Glasgow's are repurposed as offices/galleries and restaurants.

There is just no excuse, this system should have been expanded deacades ago.

Clockwork orange

I should be embarrassed, I didn't know there was an Underground in Glasgow. But an interesting upload.

When u was a kid this show really did open up the world to u it was religious viewing brings back great memories from the 70s

What a noise when you were in them, l remember them well ,,

Am I right wasn't Peter in the first series of Dr who

I always had the feeling that Blue Peter was produced for a specific English audience ! Northern Ireland , Wales and Scotland were an afterthought and always regarded as lesser to the English .... Sure you would get the occasional item like the Glasgow Subway train ,but overall it was always England first !

that was the best video i have ever watched

I’ve been on the modernised version and it’s so drab in comparison to this red liveried symbol of yesteryear.

I’ve been on the London Underground, the Paris Metro, the New York Subway and the Washington DC Metro. They all have interesting characteristics.

that was exciting

We don't live
In the dark ages in scotland
Scotland educated the world
Most invention came from scotland

I have a rare 1970s Hornby not out of the box unused railway children set, so eff off and up thuking yours

Pity they didn't show more of the St Enoch station at the beginning.

There's a joke that an old woman was complaining that they charge the same amount no matter how many stops you go. She said "I was only going one stop, but I got my money's worth, I went round the long way"

James May is truly a time traveler

Peter Purves was once the hardest bloke in TV land , seemingly he knocked out a Shetland pony with one punch .

Does anyone happen to know what happened to the carriage which was on the wall of Buchanan st station? Seems like quite a large item to have just either been scrapped, or to have "disappeared".

tHE Glasgow Subway is the world's third oldest metro system, opening in December 1896.

Are these cars still around

I've been in the Glasgow underground so many times I've lost count . It s ells really funny down there quite stinky actually.

Peter is legendary for people of my age group and he is as popular today as back in the 70,s , I hope he is well and in great health.

Good god id have hated that driving job. In the dark 6 miles round and round everyday......mind numbing..presumably they turned rach carriage around every now and again to even out the tyre and flange wear

Was a postgraduate student at Glasgow University ‘78-‘81. We knew the underground train system as: ‘the shuggle’ (sic) alluding to the significant vibration you felt on the trains themselves as well in at least one lecture theatre off Byres Road when the ‘shuggle’ passed by underneath - happy days.

Was expecting to see Joey!

Purves looking young and physically fit in 1975 sporting the long hair and flared trousers we all wore then (!) Happily he's still very much with us today. I used the old Glasgow Underground often from the early 1970s onwards. Watching this reminds me of just how rundown and threadbare it was - it was a miracle of engineering, maintenance and willpower that it somehow managed to last 81 years without collapsing. I remember a few things about the old Underground in 2023: if you got on a carriage with a trellis type door to the platform the noise levels inside the carriage could be deafening as the train trundled through the tunnels; the other thing was the distinctive tunnel odour which you would smell on every platform (along with the drip-drip noise of water just out of sight). I didn't know until today that the staff uniform design never changed since it opened in 1896 and carried black braid marking the death of Queen Victoria right up to 1977! My biggest disappointment was and is that the original line has never been extended in 126 years.

It's weird seeing it called Underground

The way he puts his head next to the 260v wires.

I can help but feel a "now and then" footage will suit the BBC remit.

I accept Mr Pervis as being an honourable man, but I suspect that he was not there when the car was moved (old footage). BBC faker 1970s style ? :-) Great video please keep them coming

Cracking Underground system in Glasgow

I don't even think they have drivers now lol

It takes me back 🚉.

Purves with all that hair!

Best kids' TV show ever.

Some of the cars ended up at Beamish.

i cant belive he put his head so close to those wires good thing his hair wasent wet !!!

So 1890s to the 1970s was the first stock

Second stock was 1970s to 2020s

Third stock ( not in service at the time of writing) 2020s onward

I think this might be how I knew there was a Glasgow underground. But I'd forgotten how long Peter Purvis grew his hair; I took him for Pat Jennings in the thumbnail.

There was no talking down to the audience then.