Talk:First Glasgow

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I had noticed the article had not been updated in a while, other than haphazardly by a variety of editors who had noticed new route-specific branding on First Glasgow buses. Clearly, this matter is of interest to some others and can be independently verified by sources, therefore I thought it worthy to add a new section in the above title. I explained that the company's latest orders for new buses were due to the introduction of this zone, that they were locally built and were introduced into service specifically by route with launch events and the stated specific route branding. I felt this too belonged in the new section, rather than SimpliCITY to which it had been added, given the branding doesn't even have the SimpliCITY logo included and the colours do not correspond to those previously used for the routes in timetabling etc. The existing sentence containing the route numbers and their colours was worded poorly and at least one of the colours appeared to be incorrect (65). I therefore listed them using bullet points with their colours and the route description as shown on the branding (e.g. Cambuslang - City Centre).

Only a few hours later, I returned to the page to find that all of my changes had been subject to a 'complete reversion' by another editor, from looking at his page, a much more experienced one at that. The reason given was 'Not travel guide'. I can only assume this was in relation to my including the route description along with the number and colour, which had been there before and had now been reverted to, along with the poor wording. As a fairly new and inexperienced editor, I found this to be slightly heavy-handed, given the afternoon's work I put in, and the reason given appearing to only relate to part of the edit. My edits were made in good faith and it had not been my intention to write a 'travel guide' but to explain the reason for the new buses and branding appearing which may be of interest to users from the local area.

I intend to try a second time, as suggested by Wikipedia guidance, to see if this 'passes muster' and will not include the geographical route descriptions, but instead show it in prose as it is currently. If editors take issue with this edited edit, I would appreciate a more full explanation, so I can avoid wasting time in future! I know we shouldn't take ownership of articles as Wikipedia is a collaborative effort, but I just felt frustrated as I thought I had improved the article, only for it to be wiped clean with a 3-word explanation. FbiZinc (talk) 19:40, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Do we really need individual articles about First Glasgow routes? Fraslet 15:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. See: First Glasgow Route 20, First Glasgow Route 56, First Glasgow Route 66, First Glasgow Route 75, SPT Bus Route 65, SPT Bus Route 130(Jacqueline2008 (talk) 18:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC))[reply]

The overground services table needs fixing, I can't get the last row to be all sky blue?! Can someone have a go at fixing it please. Thanks (Jacqueline2008 (talk) 19:35, 21 May 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Done - I hope it's okay! All that was wrong was that the last speech mark at the end of the last " style="background:#87CEFA" ", was a different type to the other, which Wikipedia didn't like. Quite how I don't know, quite how I noticed it I don't know either!! Arriva436^talk 20:32, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The table is out of date, many of the routes no longer exist. --Arossmorrison (talk) 22:21, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

1872 Glasgow Tramway and Omnibus Company formed Horse trams run on lines leased from Glasgow Corporation.

1894 Glasgow Corporation take control of city trams.

1898 First electric tram goes into service on the 13th October.

1902 The last horse car service runs in April.

1910 First "one man operated" car between Finnieston - Stobcross. Driver goes round car at stops to collect fares.

1914 Glasgow Corporation raise the 15th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry. The result of this was the recruitment of women as drivers !

1920 Introduction of Motorbuses initially used in the new housing schemes.

1949 Trolleybuses introduced.

1962 The last tram Coronation 1174 ,runs on 4th September between Auchenshuggle and Anderston Cross.

1967 Trolleybuses withdrawn.

1969 Conversion to "One Man Operated" system. The demise of the famous Glasgow "clippies".

1973 Control handed over to the G.G.P.T.E. Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive

1975 G.G.P.T.E. Becomes S.P.T.E. Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive.

1986 As a result of a new Transport Act S.P.T.E. becomes Strathclyde's Buses Ltd. Required to operate commercially but still owned by council.

1987 Introduction of the Metroriders Custom built smaller passenger vehicles.

1992 Fire strikes at company headquarters Larkfield Depot loses 60 buses in May 1992

1993 Management/Employees purchase company from Regional Council named Strathclyde's Buses Holdings.Later renamed S.B.Holdings Ltd.

1996 S.B. Holdings Ltd. acquired by First Group now called First Glasgow. Company has one of the youngest bus fleets in the country comprising of Low Floor Access and State of the art Bendi-buses.

1999 13th August sees the launch of the OVERGROUND First Glasgow's blueprint for urban bus operations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.121.248.235 (talk) 20:12, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]