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Note
Date 19 June 2014
Event ID 978592
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/978592
Lochrin Basin was, with Port Hopetoun, an original basin for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal when opened in 1822. All the Edinburgh basins (incuding the later Port Hamilton basin) were closed in 1922 as the canal usage had steadily declined since 1846 (when the railway came).
Lochrin, along with Port Hamilton and Port Hopetoun were filled in. By the tie of its closure, Lochrin Basin would have been surrounded by rather tumbledown buildings.
In 1922 a new eastern terminus basin (NT27SW 83.06) was established and given the name Lochrin Basin.
G Hutton, 1993
