Grangemouth, Harbour and Docks General View
SC 603377
Description Grangemouth, Harbour and Docks General View
Date 8/7/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 603377
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Carron Dock, Grangemouth, Falkirk This was the third of the Grangemouth docks for larger vessels than could use the Forth and Clyde Canal. It was constructed by the Caledonian Railway, and completed in 1883, with its own entrance lock from the River Carron. This shows the dock looking east from the link to the Junction Dock. The ships are typical in scale of those using the dock in the 1960s, mainly for importing timber from Scandinavia. It was the Forth and Clyde Canal Company which developed Grangemouth as a port. They even built a railway to link the docks to the main railway system. It was on account of this rail-linked dock system that the Caledonian Railway bought the canal in 1867. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/293/1D
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