Date: 03/01/2018

New trains on the Glasgow Subway will be the first in the UK to run with no staff on board, The Scotsman has learned. Operator Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) has previously announced that the trains would be driverless, but has now confirmed that no other staff will routinely ride in the carriages either. The Unite union, which represents staff, has raised safety concerns. SPT said staff would be kept on the busiest trains, which will also be fitted with CCTV for the first time. The new fleet will be unlike trains on other UK underground lines with no drivers, such as on the Docklands Light Railway in London which has on-board staff to operate the doors. It is part of a £288 million overhaul of the Subway the biggest for nearly 40 years.

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New trains on the Glasgow Subway will be the first in the UK to run with no staff on board, The Scotsman has learned.

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As a circular network the Glasgow Subway needs somewhere for recovery time, otherwise things can get in a mess due to the knock-on effect of just one delayed train.  The station used is Govan.  The driver of this unit on 4 January has taken advantage of the few minutes' stop to nip out. The livery is a combination of the once ubiquitous Strathclyde Red (orange to you and me) and SPT maroon and cream.  Although surface trains are gradually being painted out of SPT livery the colours still belong to SPT and I can't see the Subway livery changing anytime soon. It's certainly unthinkable that the trains shouldn't sport at least some orange!
Location: Govan [Subway]
Company: Glasgow District Subway
04/01/2011 David Panton

Glasgow Subway train arriving at Buchanan Street in July 2005.
Location: Buchanan Street [Subway]
Company: Glasgow District Subway
02/07/2005 John Furnevel

A 3-car Subway train in SPT livery standing at the depot in Govan in April 2008.
Location: Broomloan Depot [Subway]
Company: Glasgow District Subway
12/04/2008 Colin Harkins