Glasgow’s Subway is completely closed today as a series of tests continue to get underway on the system.
In June, SPT announced that there would be no services on July 19, August 16, August 23 and August 30.
This is to allow for final testing of the Subway’s new signalling and communications system.
Once completed, operations will be transferred to a new state-of-the-art control room at the end of August.
A paper presented to SPT’s partnership committee on Friday, June 26, states that the company requested the four Sunday closures.
These will also allow for further testing of the Platform Screen Doors (PSDs), which have been fully installed at three stations in the city’s Southside: Govan, Partick, and Ibrox.
Director of transport operations Richard Robinson previously 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 August 30, 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.”
