AlistairCowell
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There were a few occasions pre-modernisation that rolling stock have been proposed.
Firstly, the 1948 proposed extension would see the new rolling stock, which would have been a two-car unit, and would be based on continental tram instead on the tube train already used on 1896 built original circular route we know today. Each coach would be 45 feet long, would have two double doors on each side with half moon windows, and would seat 48 passengers each. Seats would all face the direction of travel, and would be turned by compressed air when the train changes direction at the terminal. The train would have a corridor connection between the two cars and the maximum speed would have been 25.6 mph.
One of the 1948 proposals included Duntocher via Botanic Gardens and Kelvinbridge along Great Western Road to St Enoch.
I came across of a photo of this proposed stock the other day:
Secondly, a proposed replacement of rolling stock in the early 1960s. The GCT wrote to Pressed Steel about replacing the original 1896 stock which had been operating for 65 years at the time. There was a drawing of steel framed and steeled panelled trailer car, which included two double-leafed doors on the platform side. On the platform side, there would have been 4 seats between the doorways and 9 seats at the ends, and on the non-platform side there would be 30 seats. This gives 52 seats in total. There is no proposed drawing for motor car, but I believe this would have been similar to the trailer car.
Another proposal was to convert existing stock to become 3-car units, and the trailer cars would have centre doors added (as happened of trailer car no.32), and the trains would be ATO operated. The 3-car train consist would have been Motor Car + Trailer Car + Motor Car. Unfortunately this proposal was not been taken forward and was cancelled in 1967.
Firstly, the 1948 proposed extension would see the new rolling stock, which would have been a two-car unit, and would be based on continental tram instead on the tube train already used on 1896 built original circular route we know today. Each coach would be 45 feet long, would have two double doors on each side with half moon windows, and would seat 48 passengers each. Seats would all face the direction of travel, and would be turned by compressed air when the train changes direction at the terminal. The train would have a corridor connection between the two cars and the maximum speed would have been 25.6 mph.
One of the 1948 proposals included Duntocher via Botanic Gardens and Kelvinbridge along Great Western Road to St Enoch.
I came across of a photo of this proposed stock the other day:
Secondly, a proposed replacement of rolling stock in the early 1960s. The GCT wrote to Pressed Steel about replacing the original 1896 stock which had been operating for 65 years at the time. There was a drawing of steel framed and steeled panelled trailer car, which included two double-leafed doors on the platform side. On the platform side, there would have been 4 seats between the doorways and 9 seats at the ends, and on the non-platform side there would be 30 seats. This gives 52 seats in total. There is no proposed drawing for motor car, but I believe this would have been similar to the trailer car.
Another proposal was to convert existing stock to become 3-car units, and the trailer cars would have centre doors added (as happened of trailer car no.32), and the trains would be ATO operated. The 3-car train consist would have been Motor Car + Trailer Car + Motor Car. Unfortunately this proposal was not been taken forward and was cancelled in 1967.
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