Subway carriages being sold for £5,000 each could become houses and even a sauna, it has been revealed.
Around 25 carriages from Glasgow subway’s 1980s fleet are being sold and gifted after the city’s 128-year-old metro system was given a £200m upgrade.
It is understood interest includes converting the carriages to cafes, offices, glamping pods and even a sauna.
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The Glasgow underground won’t be the same anymore we will miss them Noting the 🟠 trains😢
They could make tiny homes out of them.
It is a pity that one complete working train is not being preserved. In London, they have benefited from their 1938 stock vintage set. They are now used several times a year for enthusiasts days. I accept that the Glasgow Underground is very different (just one circular line), but I would have thought that something could be arranged. Alternatively, send a complete Glasgow train down to London and put it with the existing collection (even if the diameters of the Glasgow trains are smaller).
New migrant hotel 😂
it would cost more to scrap than £5,000
Donate some to rail museums.
At least one has been preserved at a museum rather than facing the scrap. I should think that some of them should be preserved and the rest to be scrapped. Since the new Glasgow Subway trains built by Stadler have replaced these old generation subway trains.
They'd make great offices/storage buildings for small rugby clubs.
NOW WE NEED Space Cruzes .. Ehhm GLASGOW SPACE PORT to moonna
Cool scrap the Scots deserve the most modern!!!!
Watch them pop up on Airbnb 😆
Sevco buying them as they are on a road to nowhere.
As a Finn I approve the sauna carriage
Reminds me of the old ‘Hitachi’ electrical multiple units. In 2006 a lot of them got retired and got sold to many private properties. A few made it to Molong Holding Yard, NSW where they await buyers and 3 of them are on top of a burger joint in Melbourne.
Would be nice to see a number of the carriages finding new use. Bone-shakers latterly, yet they actually achieved a faster journey time than the new units, which somehow take forever to open their doors at station stops.
Is this one of those things that could possibly be shipped to the states like does anyone have any experience doing that because a couple buddies and myself are interested in bringing one over for historical value.
Take them all and turn them to emergency housing I'm sure that the homeless would be very greatfull
The only drawback of offering them to preserved railways is that they are not standard gauge (4ft 0in) and couldn't run there. I'm surprised a 3 car set isn't being kept in running order for special services however.
I would buy a carriage but the only thing deterring me is having to move to Scotland
Ideal foe immigrants to live ,
Immigrant accommodation cheap too
Ideal home for the First Minister I cant lie 😆
Poor trai it life and ages good a new subway cars
I don’t think that these old cars will drive somewhere other since they have a unique track gauge and most likely no one will invest the money and time to convert them to an other gauge.
I think most of them will end up as an cafe or kiosk. This will be interesting since the inside is quite small 😂
I hope London underground does the same with the 1973 stock
At £5K each they would make cheap garden offices
Finally they got rid of that bacteria.
I'm surprised Transport for Wales hasn't bought the lot! 😂
“Just pop it in your garden”
My garden: 🚊
I worked for Bombardier now Alston for years when the Switz company got the contract Bombardier & Hitachi both went to parliament to try & stop regarding taking work that could have been done in the UK . Bombardier 1st in Wakefield then Derby & Hitachi at Doncaster. ABB did the refurbishment off Glasgow's tubes in the 90s which became Bombardier now Alston when they bought the Derby plant. I worked on Manufacturer of London's Tubes & refurbishment.
I'd buy one if I had the money but oh well lol
Let me see if I have 5k-
Living in a subway carriage?
i just ordered 1 on Amazon Prime said they could have it in my backyard in Toronto this Tuesday for the pool change room
Bit of common sense for a change in offering them for sale !. Bit of a contrast to the state of our country ……
U wish pwople can live in it but it not even insulted from air
I think a full train should of been saved to run on specials. They have become an icon of the city and are a unique train.