The Cathcart Circle

Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure

Hello!

As you know, I'm always touting the idea of Hometown Travel, and exploring places close to home. Remember, people travel across the world to visit other cities but other people travel across the world to visit yours. Everywhere is interesting, And of course many people might not be able to visit places far away, but still want to enjoy the experience of travel and discovering somewhere new.

I've been living in Glasgow for two years, and I've walked round a lot of it, using the many railway stations as waypoints, It seems logical therefore to talk about some of the things close to where I currently live, and there's a convenient railway line that loops around my local area to follow. This is the Cathcart Circle, and I figured each of the ten stations on it has enough to fill a podcast. Indeed, a few could probably manage a podcast on their own, but I am not the Roundel Round We Go Podcast and I'd argue there's less call for an entire pod on the Glasgow suburban rail network than the London Underground.

But what do I know?

Topics covered on this podcast include: * Google Analytics 4 * My future on Twitter * Introduction to the Cathcart Circle * Pollokshields East - theatre, gardens, and Sikhs * Queen's Park - clue's in the name * Crosshill - dead football stadiums * Mount Florida - alive football stadiums * Cathcart - parks, bridges, waterfalls, country houses * Langside - Instagrammable houses and a very short battle * Pollokshaws East - old buildings and benevolent Tories * Shawlands - Pollok Country Park * Maxwell Park - expensive villas and international cricket * Pollokshields West - tenement housing and community spirit * Crossmyloof - a free gift, and a building that moved

There are no contributions in this episode, but I am thankful to Scotrail, the organisation that runs the railways in Scotland, for putting all their recorded station announcements into the public domain last year. I may, may, have taken liberties with it.

A PDF transcript of this episode is available.

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Until next time, bye for now. :)