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From westbound M8

©John Firth

Dist:0.1km<br/>The roof of Barlinnie Prison can be seen on the right.

©Lynn M Reid

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©Stephen Sweeney

Dist:0.2km<br/>Small monument beside Smithycroft Road

©Lynn M Reid

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©Lynn M Reid

Dist:0.2km<br/>Slip road here for traffic from Gartloch ROad to join the eastbound lanes of the M8.

©Stephen Sweeney

Dist:0.3km<br/>Overhead sign gantry and the slip road from the M8 to the A80 at junction 12.

©David Dixon

Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking west along the M8 in the direction of the City Centre at the intersection of the M8 with the A80.

©G Laird

Dist:0.3km<br/>Tay Crescent, Riddrie. This was an intermediate terminus on the long route 106 from Millerston (in the north-east of the city) to Bellahouston in the south-west (south of the Clyde). Glasgow started its conversion of tramways to trolleybuses immediately after the second world war, but only a handful of routes were completed before the decision was made to convert the rest of the system with diesel buses. The trolleybuses outlasted the trams by less than five years. Route 106 was replaced by bus route 38.
This housing estate with its two storey houses marks an intermediate stage between the working class traditional tenements and the high-rise which was already making an impact on the city landscape by the mid-60s.
For a slide show of British Trolleybuses in the late 60s
http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1773236&displayclass=slide

©Alan Murray-Rust

Dist:0.3km<br/>Once home to Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people. http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst7716.html

©Chris Upson

Dist:0.4km<br/>At Gartloch Road.

©Stephen Sweeney

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©Elliott Simpson

Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking west towards the Red Road flats.

©Stephen Sweeney

Dist:0.5km<br/>Lethamhill Road is dominated by Barlinnie Prison.

©Richard Webb

Dist:0.5km<br/>This is a Glasgow City Council depot. In the background is Barlinnie prison

©John Firth

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