Glasgow bus services - mid 1980's

[Big Jumby 74]

Hi all. This may be one for the historic part of the forum, but will start here. Mid 1980's Glasgow, were all bus services still under Glasgow Corporation/National bus company? Secondly does anyone have access to any time tables as such for that period -particularly for routes between the City Centre and Springburn to the North and also Southwards to Polmadie area?

Thanks for reading.

 

[Metal Mickey]

Hi all. This may be one for the historic part of the forum, but will start here. Mid 1980's Glasgow, were all bus services still under Glasgow Corporation/National bus company? Secondly does anyone have access to any time tables as such for that period -particularly for routes between the City Centre and Springburn to the North and also Southwards to Polmadie area?

Thanks for reading.

Strathclyde Buses Limited was incorporated in 1986 as the successor to Glasgow Corporation Transport and the bus operations of Greater Glasgow Transport Executive.

Scottish Bus Group operators in the Greater Glasgow area were Midland, Eastern, Central and Western. In 1985, new SBG subsidiaries Kelvin and Clydeside were established. Kelvin took over the Dunbartonshire operations from Midland and Clydeside took Western’s Inverclyde and Renfrewshire networks.

The Clydebank and Vale of Leven area was transferred from Central to Kelvin and Eastern transferred it’s Monklands network to Central.

Polmadie area at that time would’ve been served by the 12/12A, 33 and 74 and Springburn had numerous services from memory being the 8, 18 33, 37, 45, 89 and 90.

 

[Man of Kent]

Possibly the most significant change ahead of bus deregulation was the ending of the old Glasgow Corporation monopoly boundary, around about the end of 1981/early 1982.

This meant that the general restriction on Scottish Bus Group services not to carry local passengers within the monopoly boundary was lifted - previously all such traffic had to use Strathclyde PTE buses.

It's not specifically about either of the areas mentioned, but this article from the Commercial Motor archive is a good jumping off point:

• The Glasgow 1930 monopoly under threat | 14th November 1981 | The Commercial Motor Archive

'• The Glasgow 1930 monopoly under threat' first printed in the 14th November 1981 issue of Commercial Motor

archive.commercialmotor.com

Whether either area benefited from access to SBG services , I can't remember - SBG timetables of the era gave no route details and were generally without maps. And I can't remember at what point longer distance routes may have been moved from arterial roads to the new dual carriageways that were being carved through some of the inner suburbs.

Springburn was certainly served by SBG from 1986 - Kelvin even ran a local minibus service, the M4.

 

[Pyewipecarshed]

Stagecoach began an operation in Glasgow in 1986 under the name Magicbus, to join the Strathclyde Buses and SBG mix.

 

[Big Jumby 74]

Thank you one and each.

 

[DunsBus]

Eastern also ran local services in the east end of Glasgow. These were transferred to Midland in mid-March 1985 when Eastern's Baillieston depot closed, with the inherited vehicles moving to Stepps, one of the depots which transferred to Kelvin that June.

Some of Baillieston's fleet was in a very bad way. I'm aware of two of the 11 Seddons based there and which were inherited by Kelvin going for scrap at the end of 1985, when just seven years old.

 

[ian1944]

Hi all. This may be one for the historic part of the forum, but will start here. Mid 1980's Glasgow, were all bus services still under Glasgow Corporation/National bus company? Secondly does anyone have access to any time tables as such for that period -particularly for routes between the City Centre and Springburn to the North and also Southwards to Polmadie area?

Thanks for reading.

Timetable World is the place to look for old timetables online.