Glasgow Corporation Transport Services map : October 1949 : Trolleybus routes and Motorbus Night Services list
A very London Transport style folding map issued by Glasgow Corporation Transport Department and showing the city's municipal tram, trolleybus, bus and Underground services. This, issued under the name of the General Manager E R L Fitzpayne, is marked as the 'second issue' and dated October 1949.
It shows the undertaking almost at its greatest extent, primarily before the abandonment of the famed tramway services that would start in earnest in the mid-1950s as the long 'out of boundary' routes such as to Airdrie, east off the map, went ostensibly as part of the 'deal' to electrifiy the area's heavy rail services as part of the "Blue Trains" scheme. The growth, therefore, was to be in the motor bus services as they extended into new suburban housing schemes as part of the city's massive inner city slum clearance schemes and with some additions to the trolleybus network. Glasgow were the last operator to open a trolleybus system - partially driven by the unusual retention at nationalisation of the Department's own power station and the continued use of electricity - and it started in with route 102 on 3 April 1949 with the next route conversion, the 101 starting in Novemeber 1949 so just missing this map. Therefore this edition is unusual in that it shows a solitary trolleybus route.
This section lists the one trolleybus route and the night bus service routes showing the route numbers, route description and basic timetable information. It includes details of the connection at Baillieston for the Coatbridge night tram at 1.32am.
Glasgow Corporation Transport Services map : October 1949 : Trolleybus routes and Motorbus Night Services list
A very London Transport style folding map issued by Glasgow Corporation Transport Department and showing the city's municipal tram, trolleybus, bus and Underground services. This, issued under the name of the General Manager E R L Fitzpayne, is marked as the 'second issue' and dated October 1949.
It shows the undertaking almost at its greatest extent, primarily before the abandonment of the famed tramway services that would start in earnest in the mid-1950s as the long 'out of boundary' routes such as to Airdrie, east off the map, went ostensibly as part of the 'deal' to electrifiy the area's heavy rail services as part of the "Blue Trains" scheme. The growth, therefore, was to be in the motor bus services as they extended into new suburban housing schemes as part of the city's massive inner city slum clearance schemes and with some additions to the trolleybus network. Glasgow were the last operator to open a trolleybus system - partially driven by the unusual retention at nationalisation of the Department's own power station and the continued use of electricity - and it started in with route 102 on 3 April 1949 with the next route conversion, the 101 starting in Novemeber 1949 so just missing this map. Therefore this edition is unusual in that it shows a solitary trolleybus route.
This section lists the one trolleybus route and the night bus service routes showing the route numbers, route description and basic timetable information. It includes details of the connection at Baillieston for the Coatbridge night tram at 1.32am.