Getting around the city is easy, especially on the 'Clockwork Orange', Glasgow’s very own Metro. It literally goes round in a circle! The route is one complete circle with two lines of tracks in two separate tunnels - one going clockwise and the other anti-clockwise. It covers a distance of 6.5 miles on four feet gauge track around the city - a complete circuit takes just 25 minutes.
In 1979 it was modernised and the new trains were given an orange livery. The local Glaswegians immediately dubbed it the "Clockwork Orange". Since then, the trains have been repainted a different colour, but the name has stuck.
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I've never heard it called the metro. Everybody calls it the subway or just the underground. Indeed it's now officially called the Subway again which was its original name from 1896 to 1935. It was called the Glasgow Underground in the intervening period. It's older than the Paris Metro. Only London and Budapest had underground railway transport systems before it.
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