Glasgow’s Subway will not run services on four Sundays over July and August as we begin the final testing of our new signalling and communications system and transfers operations over to our new state-of-the-art Control Room at the end of August.

In a paper to go to our Partnership Committee on Friday (26 June), SPT has requested four Sunday closures on 19 July, 16 August, 23 August, 30 August.

These closures will allow for further testing of the trains with the new signalling and communications equipment as well as further testing of the Platform Screen Doors (PSDs) now fully installed in three stations – Govan, Partick and Ibrox.

Director of Transport Operations Richard Robinson said:

“We have now reached another crucial point for Subway modernisation. The installation of the new signalling and comms system into our Victorian Subway was always going to be the most challenging of the modernisation programme. We have been successfully carrying out testing at night for several months, operating the system from our new Operational Control Centre (OCC) and we are now ready to transfer to the new OCC completely.

“However, once we move to the new OCC we must thoroughly test the new systems and our staff, running every operational scenario possible before introducing passengers. We need to replicate a full service without passengers as we transfer over. When we have completed this on the final Sunday on 30 August, then passengers should start to see a difference when travelling with us.

“It is our expectation that once everything has transferred over and the system is confirmed as ready, passenger announcements will be fully automated, with more information available on the passenger screens on board trains, new passenger information screens will also be working in stations and the recently installed PSDs will be operational in stations. As more PSDs are rolled out across more stations, these will also become operational.”

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