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While the route doesn't match any of the known ones (it closely follows the old Route 6 until the town centre), I can offer some useless (but perhaps interesting) insight into the stops.

Beardmore St was named by and for the old William Beardmore and Company shipyards (now the site of the Golden Jubilee hospital) which shut in 1930 and part of the land sold off to the Ministry of Supply for ROF Dalmuir.

Dock St was home to the Rothesay Dock, opened in 1907 to handle the large quantities of iron and coal being imported for the Lanarkshire yards which lasted until the opening of the Hunterston Ore Terminal in 1980.

Ferry St was for the Yoker-Renfrew ferry which is still operational as far as I know.

Blawarthill Road no longer exists but my best guess is it would have been used for the Blawarthill Hospital which lasted from 1897 until 2002. First as an infectious diseases hospital (as you can imagine, TB would be absolutely rife in industrial Glasgow) then as a geriatric hospital. Now the site of a care home.

Merkland St is the old Partick Cross, which is now that strip of land between Partick station and the Morrisons.

Church St is just off Byres Road, heading to the Kelvin Hall and the site of what used to be the Western Infirmary (now Glasgow Uni's southern annex).

Finnieston St is, unsurprisingly where the SEC and Hydro are though at the time would have been home to the *gigantic* Stobcross Goods and Mineral Station which had about 40-50 different lines of rail track (one of which survives today as the line for the Exhibition Centre station, which is the former Stobcross and runs all the way up to the Botanic Gardens).

Route 6 was the last line to shut of them all but even that was 1962 so the ticket can't be any later than that.