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Author	Scunnered20
Comment	A direct (or at the very least smooth as possible) Southside - West End is one of the options being explored as part of the Clyde Metro. Among the things being examined are turning Cathcart Circle into light-rail. What that means exactly is anyone's guess, but could be something like a lighter tram-train or something closer to the specialised light metro trains that run on Copenhagen's metro system. Lighter rail has a better acceleration profile, allowing you to have more services on the line per hour. One of the ideas is for construction of a major new subway & rail interchange at West Street in Tradeston. Something similar to what exists at Partick station just now. This would allow people coming from the south of the city to switch to the subway or onto rail services going towards Paisley, Ayrshire or Inverclyde (and vice versa). Another idea is to run the Cathcart Circle lines across the Union Line bridge and then, somehow, get tunnel them down to join the Argyle Line running underneath Central Station. The services would then go on westwards until the Exhibition Centre, where they'd branch north and use old rail alignments and tunnels to reach Kelvinbridge, Hillhead and ultimately, Maryhill. The tunnelling down to reach the Argyle Line aspect of that last plan seems a little difficult to imagine happening. But one other possibility that lighter vehicles allows for is street running. You could potentially run light rail tram-trains along the Union Line, and have them run along streets along much of the same route up to the Exhibition Centre, where they can join the rail lines again.
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Created	Fri 26th May 2023 2:21pm
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A direct (or at the very least smooth as possible) Southside - West End is one of the options being explored as part of the Clyde Metro.

Among the things being examined are turning Cathcart Circle into light-rail. What that means exactly is anyone's guess, but could be something like a lighter tram-train or something closer to the specialised light metro trains that run on Copenhagen's metro system.

Lighter rail has a better acceleration profile, allowing you to have more services on the line per hour.

One of the ideas is for construction of a major new subway & rail interchange at West Street in Tradeston. Something similar to what exists at Partick station just now. This would allow people coming from the south of the city to switch to the subway or onto rail services going towards Paisley, Ayrshire or Inverclyde (and vice versa).

Another idea is to run the Cathcart Circle lines across the Union Line bridge and then, somehow, get tunnel them down to join the Argyle Line running underneath Central Station. The services would then go on westwards until the Exhibition Centre, where they'd branch north and use old rail alignments and tunnels to reach Kelvinbridge, Hillhead and ultimately, Maryhill.

The tunnelling down to reach the Argyle Line aspect of that last plan seems a little difficult to imagine happening. But one other possibility that lighter vehicles allows for is street running. You could potentially run light rail tram-trains along the Union Line, and have them run along streets along much of the same route up to the Exhibition Centre, where they can join the rail lines again.