Riverside Museum, Glasgow

We saw a tram today, ok, it wasn't in Edinburgh but in the new Riverside Museum in Glasgow, which is really cool. The old Glasgow trams remind me of the ones In San Francisco!

Glasgow Corporation Tramways were formerly one of the largest urban tramway systems in Europe. Over 1000 municipally-owned trams served the city of Glasgow, Scotland with over 100 route miles by 1922.

The tram system was gradually phased out between 1956 and 1962 (in favour of diesel-powered buses), with the final trams operating on 4 September 1962. Apart from the Blackpool tramway, Glasgow became the last city or town in the UK to operate trams until the opening of the Manchester Metrolink in 1992.

In 1949 one tram line was converted to trolleybus operation. Thereafter Glasgow developed several trolleybus routes, but these were all replaced by diesel buses by 1967.

I'm enjoying my week off from work and the weather is ok, too!