Date: 13/04/2011

PASSENGERS on Glasgow's Underground are to get their own Oyster Card-style ticket allowing them to top up a new travel card with credit in a scheme similar to the one operating in London.

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Stations in Partick have a habit of changing their names.  The old Partick Cross Subway station became Kelvinhall when the system reopened in 1980, and Merkland Street became plain Partick.  There doesn't seem to have been much justification in making Kelvinhall one word: Kelvin Hall station (previously Partick Central) had long closed by then, and there's no locality called 'Kelvinhall'.  It's perhaps easy to see, with single barriers here for entry and exit, why visitors used to the Tube find the Glasgow Subway quaint to say the least. [See image 14498]
Location: Kelvinhall [Subway]
Company: Glasgow District Subway
01/09/2010 David Panton

The ticket hall of the Glasgow District Subway station at Buchanan Street, the busiest station on the system, photographed on 11 September 2010.
Location: Buchanan Street [Subway]
Company: Glasgow District Subway
11/09/2010 David Panton

'Hello.. control?....I think I've got a tail... blue shirts...red ties...mean looking gits...3 of them... could be Oyster agents....' Wimbledon District Line arrivals, July 2004.
Location: Wimbledon
Company: Wimbledon and Putney Line (London and South Western Railway)
03/07/2004 John Furnevel