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World Trip 2002 - Glasgow

Years ago one of the very first urban exploration sites on the Internet was created by a group based in Glasgow called the Milk Crate Gang. One day without warning, the site disappeared from the Internet. But I had a local copy, and continued to be inspired by the beautiful photos I saw there. I mean there were stations underground with trees growing in them. Really these were some of the the most incredible urban exploration photos I had ever seen.

Later, I hear rumors that the tunnels were not really in Glasgow at all. I had heard the Milk Crate Gang had done what I do with location information and taken the images some place else than Glasgow. I was in two minds about going all that way. Perhaps I would not find anything. But having made my way all the way up to Liverpool I just had to go.

Within a minute's walk from Kelvinside underground station I came across this walled up railway tunnel looking just how it was described in the Milk Crate Gang site even though I don't have a copy of their image any more. It was much how I remembered it.

I soon found this portal to a railway tunnel. It was very easy to sneak in as someone had long ago cut away some of the bars.

Inside the portal the ground was hard and rocky underfoot.

Those symbols! I was on the right path.

After almost a kilometer of walking I come out of the tunnel past a small lake into this cutting.

The familiar looking stuff on the side of the cutting. I presume it held a water tank or signal box.

Looking back up to the cutting from tunnel number 2.

The second cutting passes beneath the railway from Patrick Station to Charring Cross station at about Crescent Lane.

The tunnel then emerges into an active tunnel at the end of the Exhibition Center station. It can barely be seen here.

One of the trains of the same type that I saw pass by the end of the tunnel. Taken at Anderson Station.

Modern day Scottish subway rolling stock

You can see more pictures of the line on this web site.
You can read about the history of the lines on the Railscot Glasgow Central Railway page.

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