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    The Glasgow Subway is an underground light metro system in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened on 14 December 1896, it is the third-oldest underground rail transit...
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    only metro system in Scotland, the Glasgow Subway; and by two international airports, Glasgow Prestwick Airport and Glasgow Airport. The Glasgow City...
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    unsuccessfully, beginning with the Glasgow Airport Rail Link in 2009. As of 2019, local authorities have approved plans for a "Glasgow Metro", including a connection...
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    to Glasgow city centre and the Clyde Tunnel. Transport links will also be a key feature of Glasgow Harbour in the future, with a pre-light rail metro system...
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    The Warsaw Metro (Polish: Metro Warszawskie) is a rapid transit underground system serving the Polish capital Warsaw. It currently consists of two lines...
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    Glasgow Airport, also known as Glasgow International Airport (IATA: GLA, ICAO: EGPF) (Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Eadar-nàiseanta Ghlaschu), formerly...
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    This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways...
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    Rapid transit (redirect from Metro system)
    The North East England Tyne and Wear Metro, mostly overground, is known as the Metro. In Scotland, the Glasgow Subway underground rapid transit system...
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  • The Glasgow Airport attack was a terrorist ramming attack which occurred on 30 June 2007, at 15:11 BST, when a dark green Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane...
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    New Glasgow is a town in Pictou County, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated on the banks of the East River of Pictou, which flows into...
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    The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki...
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    Glasgow Queen Street (Scottish Gaelic: Sràid na Banrighinn) is a passenger railway terminus serving the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the smaller...
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    The Amsterdam Metro (Dutch: Amsterdamse metro) is a rapid transit system serving Amsterdam, Netherlands, and extending to the surrounding municipalities...
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    Glasgow Cross is at the hub of the ancient royal burgh and now city of Glasgow, Scotland, close to its first crossing over the River Clyde. It marks the...
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    Glasgow Prestwick Airport (IATA: PIK, ICAO: EGPK), commonly referred to as Prestwick Airport, is an international airport serving the west of Scotland...
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    Network map The Copenhagen Metro (Danish: Københavns Metro, pronounced [kʰøpm̩ˈhɑwˀns ˈme̝ːtsʰʁo]) is a light rapid transit system in Copenhagen, Denmark...
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    Glasgow Central (Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu Mheadhain), usually referred to in Scotland as just Central or Central Station, is one of two principal mainline...
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    Gaelic: Ceàrnag Sheòrais) is the principal civic square in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of six squares in the city centre, the others being...
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    Grace, W. G. (1909). W. G.'s Little Book. Newnes. Ghost-written by E.H.D. Sewell. Low, Robert (2004). W. G. Grace: An Intimate Biography. Metro Books....
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    Deborah Kerr (category Actresses from Glasgow)
    elegance". Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Hillhead, Glasgow, the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (née Smale) and Capt. Arthur Charles...
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    Robbie Coltrane (category Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art)
    debating society, and won prizes for his art. He studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art. Coltrane later called for private schools to be banned and...
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    Matt (August 26, 2008). "For Widener Law students, a teacher aims high". Metro Philadelphia. Archived from the original on October 4, 2008. Retrieved September...
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    sailed to Great Britain and was first assigned to preach in a slum in Glasgow, Scotland. The abject poverty and hopelessness he saw there affected him...
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    pleas for help". Metro. 8 November 2006. Retrieved 26 August 2021. Walker, David (17 August 2021). "Petition launched to name Glasgow bridge after murder...
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    birthday: At nine, Service re-joined his parents who had moved to Glasgow. He attended Glasgow's Hillhead High School. After leaving school, Service joined the...
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    Peter Capaldi (category Male actors from Glasgow)
    and the pair have a child together. Capaldi was born on 14 April 1958 in Glasgow, Scotland, to Gerald and Nancy (née Soutar) Capaldi. His paternal grandfather...
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    Underground, Docklands Light Railway, the West Midlands Metro, Tramlink, part of the Tyne and Wear Metro, Glasgow Subway and the London Cable Car. The force is...
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  • by a system known as MAGGALY (Métro Automatique à Grand Gabarit de l'Agglomération Lyonnaise). First fully automatic metro in Italy. First section opened...
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    The city of Glasgow, Scotland, has a transport system encompassing air, rail, road and an underground light metro line. Prior to 1962, the city was also...
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    Mungo (later Glasgow Cathedral) in the north, to Glasgow Cross and the banks of the River Clyde. The High Street now stops at Glasgow Cross, with the...
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