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View from ENE showing entrance
SC 718179
Description View from ENE showing entrance
Date 25/4/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 718179
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Slamannan Basin and Railway Terminal Yard, Union Canal, Falkirk This shows the basin from the north, looking across the Union Canal. The basin is approximately rectangular, and the railway terminus was on the quay opposite the entrance. Within a few years its importance as a terminal had declined, and it became the site of the Almond Iron Works. This photograph was taken on the occasion of a rally organised by the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Society to encourage interest in the preservation of the Union Canal, which had officially closed in 1965. The canal was eventually reopened throughout as part of the Millennium Link in 2002. This basin was constructed as the eastern terminal of the Slamannan Railway, which ran from the Ballochney Railway near Airdrie across the desolate Slamannan Plateau, primarily to open up coal and ironstone mines on the route. It opened in 1840, linking with services on the Union Canal. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/13a/31
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