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View from WNW showing NNW and WSW fronts

SC 646215

Description View from WNW showing NNW and WSW fronts

Date 27/6/1965

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 646215

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Old Gartferry Station, Moodiesburn, East Dunbartonshire This level crossing was on the Monkland & Kirkintilloch Railway, which was the first conventional public railway in Scotland, opened in 1826. It was built to connect collieries in the Coatbridge area with the Forth & Clyde Canal at Kirkintilloch. This shows the level crossing from the north-west. The crossing, on a minor road, was controlled from a signal box on the other side of the road. The cottage, latterly a crossing-keeper's house, was probably the station house for Gartferry Station on the Monkland & Kirkintilloch Railway. The Monkland & Kirkintilloch Railway remained an important link between collieries in the Kilsyth area and Gartsherrie Iron Works in Coatbridge until the latter closed in 1968. The railway closed with the closure of Bedlay Colliery in 1981. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/15/26

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/646215

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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