GREAT OLD GLASGOW TRANSIT REMEMBERED

[TraceurZeno]

Beautiful video and sad ending

[neilb229]

Nice.

[SuperFrasman]

The music is by Shostakovitch from 'The Gadfly'

[43lochness]

great.

[Steamnut44]

Brilliant bit of nostalgia, pity we can't turn the clock back 60 years. I well remember the Glasgow Trams. Nice piece of music too.

Geoff

[SCL0PS]

Cheers for posting this onto yt.

[berdivhala1]

Canada and culture ????!! isnt that an oxymoron? lol

[QE2Glasgow]

Have you used the photos out the Ian Allan book....STREETS OF GLASGOW? You may care about Canada but you certainly don't care about "publisher copyright"

[rabblue]

good vid but ye cant sa y glasgow people arent civil.  best people in the world

[klingonadmiral]

Canada?-crap country and the worst people there are expat Scots!-emigrated there with my wife and weans and got scammed,kicked aboot and generally abused by my ain folk!-aw two faced whingers who deserve kickin out of Scotland!-Culturally?-theres nae culture in Canada-it's all other folks!-left in disgust after braking my back trying to make a home there-biggest lie in the world-"Canadians are among the friendliest people on earth"-my arse!-they'd roll their mothers over for a dollar!

[drigin1234]

People who wish to argue do so, but please see the magnificence of our now lost transport heritage and these wonderful photos.

I for one say thankyou for letting me see this wonderful memorabilia

[spammidden]

Mr McAllister, You are a prime example of a particular generation of small minded wee Scots men who emigrated to Canada but took their massive inferiority complex with them. As a proud Scot with dual Canadian citizenship I can say that while Canada is a nice country, the idea of it being culturally (Guffaw!) and intellectually superior to any other country is laughable. I have many corpulent nieces and nephews in Canada who make the Beverly Hillbillys look urbane! Stop living in the past Sir

[misssmiler1]

Oh please tell me what this music is called? Its just made me cry again. LOVELY.

[Rabidsenses]

I have to agree with amac1000:

Canada is a vastly superior country compared to Scotland. Culturally, intellectually it is a country that does not stand next to the Tartan wingnuts of Scotland.

Be fair and reasonable, dear gentlemen.

[marc7388]

i stay in cumbernauld village near glasgow was brought up in glasgow.there is a good dvd on amazon called glasgow trams and trolleybuses 45minutes long charting the whole history from horse trams to trolleybuses in glasgow really great live footage it,s only a couple of quid.

[amac1000]

I still love Glasgow to this day.

While my new home, Canada, is vastly superior to Scotland in so many ways (culturally, intellectually, aesthetically, and with regards to civility) I still reserve a special place in my heart for my old home and native land.

Thank you for watching my video.

[DOKK212]

What a load of rubbish! how can you say that Canada has more cultured & be more intellegent & superior to Scotland?..When was the last time you set foot on this soil?..You can't judge a City or Country by watching 40 year old films on YouTube..Scotland nowadays is a clean,modern & multi-cultural country

[amac1000]

I travel to Scotland frequently where my mother and my two brothers and their families live.

Through the lens of someone (myself) who has lived in Canada since 1968 and visited Scotland every second year (at the very minimum!) I can assure you that through five decades Canada has been and remains a superior country in terms of it culture and educational achievements.

I am very proud of my new home.

And I still love Scotland. It is my native land.

[freddiequeen]

@amac1000

Hi there amac

in response to your comments above, Canada maybe superior in education but I can't agree with you on culture and achievements.

The way of life in Canada may be healthier and i believe this has clouded your judgement my honest friend.

[taxidude]

@freddiequeen Oh in education, Scotland is way out infront. Antibiotics and general anaesthetics both discovered in Scotland. Television and John Logie Baird. Tarmacadam. The Wealth of Nations...the way the world runs today is down to the Scots. Lord Kelvin and his gas equations...Kelvin temperature scale is named after him. And the unit of power, the Watt is named after James Watt and his steam engine. Now, Canada has given us what?

[amac1000]

Having lived in each of Canada's three largest cities - Montréal, Toronto, and now Vancouver - I can measurably compare them to Glasgow and Edinburgh and draw the easy conclusion that there is no comparison.

I'm sorry. Please do not be upset by this. Most would agree.

I am offering up videos on Youtube (more to come!!) that document the history of Scotland, especially Glasgow, and the life I lived there as a child and into my early adult years.

[freddiequeen]

@amac1000  Both Great Countries :-)

[amac1000]

You're a stupid festering cunt to even presume to breathe the word Scotland in the same sentence as Canada.

I love Scotland but you, sir, went overboard in questioning Canada's superiority.

[DOKK212]

Thank-You! You just proved my point, with the verbal abuse you showed in the first few words!!!..no more to be said.Good-Day

[hujjesb]

Canada ..name me a Wallace,Bruce,we in Scotland ,FACT with this small country have the most inventers in the world ..(canada ,ha ha wake up its time to go to work)..

[MsCashellogroupie]

Is this an example of the vastly superior educational and cultural attainments you've enjoyed since relocating to Canada? If so, then please stay there and stop fouling Youtube with your warped and abusive postings.

[lafflikefuck]

Who the fuck cares about the postings. The video ya bampot the video !!!!!

[ianrobertson01]

Vastly superior to Scotland? I don't think so what sort of rubbish is that to say.

[hujjesb]

I agree with you on that point ..

[kleinjogg]

Glasgow should have trams again. They are just wonderful. And in the same green, white and orange. I am sure there are companies around to rebuild old ones and make modern ones. I'd love that. Thanks for the video. Great stuff. Love from Zurich, Switzerland.

[hujjesb]

hey no credit crunch in them days eh 100 times better days

[boazrg]

We were so much better off socially in 1960 that it's not even funny. We had a real civilized society then; a society not based on goods and money.

G-d help the young people of today. Our lives have not been easy, and their lives will be worse - a lot worse.

[toepebble]

Nice photography, the music went very well with it also. Thank you.

[misssmiler1]

How fantastic. Music brilliant this has made me cry. Thank you. SUPER.

[amac1000]

misssmiler1,

Wow! Thank you ever so much for your wonderful comment. You really made my day.

I, too, adore this music. Can you guess what it is being played?

A good day to you, indeed!

[malinscotland]

Class video mate. Glasgow, when it was truly great. Before its transport system was poisoned by the car hating maniacs who reduced Jamiaca st from 5 lanes to 1, introduced 'bus gates' to Hope st no less, and who have conducted a mission to gridlock and pollute our city and to then blame 'motorists' for the jams.

[parodypumpkin]

nice music and nostalgic look back, i enjoyed that, even though it was before i was born i imagine my parents and grandparents at that time, as they would have been, and look at the buildings as many remain in situ, and the hustle and bustle.

[lafflikefuck]

Jist like it wiz yesterday....the auld cawrs

[jacktheclean]

Wonderfull. I left Glasgow in 1953 = so these memories are so precious. Thank you!

[torfootlass]

These were the days Glasgow transport at its best. Wonderful memories.

[legendarylunatic]

Great Glasgow Trams Caldendar for 2008 now released at lulu . com

[markhilluk]

the old days in glasgow in 1940s

[scottishlowoflow]

if anybody is that interested they can go see the trams in Hong Kong they are run there they haven't even painted over them

[cavaradossij]

You tubers beware,

someone sent amac1000,the author of Great Glasgow transit, an insulting profane message under my I D, Amac 1000 knows i would never do this, I have an idea who the culprit is and i am sure You tube administration will confirm it is Rabidsenhses, see my admonition of his rude letter to Amac1000, 4 months ago

Cavaradossi ex Glasgow Tram driver

[britishagenda]

A wonderful and sad compilation of days gone by. If only Glasgow was like that now. Instead, thanks to the Scottish Parliament it's become the dumping ground of the third World. When you travel around Glasgow it's like being in a foreign country. Our ancestors must be turning in their graves.

[petethetim]

Fantastic Brought Back some great childhood memories of Summer Hols spent in Glasgow Just set me wondering & thinking Does anybody Know what ever became of the Savoy Chain of Café/Restaurants which ere scattered across Glasgow City Centre in the Late 60's Mid 70's ?

[cavaradossij]

the Music used in this video is by Shostakovich, from the I T V 's 'Reilly, Ace of Spies' the music is a romance

[cavaradossij]

so you think it's better with buses making you cough your lungs up, I think you too believe in the Banshee

[cavaradossij]

the Trams were sacrificed, to placate the Motorcar, but the percentage of Glaswegians with cars are exactly the same as they were in 1962, 20 percent of the population ,where is the progress in that, and Glasgow will soon follow London in Barring cars from the city centre, also the trolley buses were scrapped all over the UK, was this Arab Persuasion

[cavaradossij]

Glasgow's people have never forgiven the Corporation for scrapping these great old ladies built in Glasgow with Glasgow Brains and brawn, now the city is polluted with diesel fumes and the lung cancer rate is the highest in Europe, mr crossley if you send me your email i will send you an icon of a Glasgow Tram route on the Saltmarket 1948 era,with a number two,white car,Provanmill to Polmadie, and a blue number ten Rutherglen to Kelvinside, free of charge

[shark1873]

i say bring back the trams:P am too young too have seen em in glasgow but been on alot of glasgow trams in blackpool lol

[crossleydd42]

A wonderful, evocative and sad compilation. How useful the reserved track tram routes would be today. And nice to see shots of The Subway, too. Thanks for the posting.