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Encyclopedia > Argyle Line, Glasgow

The Argyle Line is a suburban railway located in West Central Scotland.


Opened in 1979, the Argyle Line was created by reinstating a number of redundant sections of track in the Glasgow area which had been closed by the Beeching Axe. Services on the line are operated by First ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Passenger Transport.


The line serves stations between Dalmuir (a sub district of Clydebank), and the Clyde Valley, terminating at either Motherwell, Coatbridge or Lanark. The principal station on the route is Glasgow Central Low Level. Between Exhibition Centre (previously called Finnieston) and Dalmarnock, the line runs below ground.


Heading north west, Partick, the Argyle Line connects to the North Clyde Line, and shares the same track. Heading to the south east, it connects with, and shares the same track as the West Coast Main Line after Rutherglen until Shieldmuir, near Motherwell, where it branches off towards Wishaw and Lanark.





Major railway lines in the United Kingdom:
'Modern' high speed main lines:

Channel Tunnel Rail Link | Channel Tunnel

'Classic' main lines:

East Coast | Great Eastern | Great Western | Midland | West Coast

Other main lines:

Brighton | Chiltern | Glasgow South Western | Highland | North Wales
Portsmouth Direct | Settle-Carlisle | South Wales | South Western
Welsh Marches | Wessex | West Highland | West of England

Secondary lines:

Aire Valley | Argyle | Atlantic Coast | Ayrshire Coast | Birmingham Cross_City
Bittern | Cambrian | Cotswold | Cumbrian | Conwy Valley | East Coastway
East Suffolk | Esk Valley | Far North | Golden Valley | Heart of Wales
Heart of Wessex | Hope Valley | Kyle of Lochalsh | Looe Valley | Lymington
Maritime | Marsh Link | North Clyde | Oxted | St Ives Bay | Tamar Valley
Tarka | Tyne Valley | West Coastway | Wherry







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Glasgow Subway: Information from Answers.com (2625 words)
The subway is not the oldest underground railway in Glasgow itself; that distinction belongs to a 5 km stretch of the North Clyde line of the suburban railway network which runs in a sub-surface tunnel under the city centre between High Street and west of Charing Cross.
The line was formally reopened by the Queen on 1 November 1979.
Glasgow Central station and Argyle Street railway station (for the Argyle Line) are both a short walk from St. Enoch, and most stations connect with bus routes.
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