Not a “Club 55” trip…
Glasgow: a day out
© Geoff’s Rail Diaries 2018
Geoff’s Rail Diaries
26 September 2018
The autumn offer from Arriva Trains Wales didn’t seem
particularly good value. It was under £20 a few years ago,
now it’s £27. “I reckon we could do better than that”
suggested my friend. “How about Glasgow - out via the old
G&SWR, via Dumfries and Kilmarnock, and back down the
main line?”. The single from Glasgow to Crewe was £11.20;
outward cost a little more, as we had to book to Dunlop, and
add on a single from there to Glasgow - but still below the
£27 mark… (OK, we have to get to Crewe - add another £2.30)
Booking well in advance gives the weather too much notice -
it was a fine sunny day in Shropshire, but somewhat less
clement in Scotland. At least it had stopped raining when we
arrived, which meant we could follow plan A…
- a walk to St Enoch Square, to visit the former entrance to
the subway there
- a riverside walk to the new Riverside Museum of Transport
and Travel
- a subway ride back to Buchanan Street, for a look at
Glasgow Queen Street station
- a walk back to Central, and
- the most expensive pint of beer I’ve ever bought. Who’d
have imagined that, even in the centre of Glasgow?
We would have had a tight connection at Crewe for the last
short stretch back to Nantwich - we missed it by a very
healthy margin! Signalling problems much further south
meant that we sat for nearly an hour in Preston (what fun!)
until our train had a driver, who would be arriving on a very
late northbound service. So we ended up with a few minutes
to spare at Crewe - enough for one or two night shots - before
finally taking our final train ride of the day (an Arriva Trains
Wales service…). What a great day out!
