Industrial artwork beside Glasgow Road

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 11 Mar 2005

Here, on the northern side of Glasgow Road, what appear to be sections of a tunnel or large pipeline have been installed in several groups on the grass verge. See Image, an earlier photograph, which provides more context. The course of Drumpellier Golf Club is located behind the stone wall in the background. I was unable to find out anything more about these objects. However, I am grateful to a fellow contributor – http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/10850 – who tells me that they were installed here in the 1970s, on the former route of the road, and that "the existing dual carriageway follows the old Baillieston – Langloan tramway (private line), and the current route of the (A89) road was straightened by cutting into the line of the tramway at this bend" (thanks again for the information).

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