Image), Image, and Image Examination of the 25-inch OS map published in 1919 shows tramlines passing Dalreoch Toll (the tollhouse was then still standing). If the tramlines were still present today, they would be seen entering this photograph where the cars are stopped, and they would leave the picture at the lower right corner. Followed north from here, the line passed Image, already disused by then, on the way to Renton. Followed in the opposite direction, the line passed through the West Bridgend area of Dumbarton, crossed Image, and then followed the town's High Street. In the vicinity of Image, the line divided, with one branch continuing along Image (the lines visible in that picture are unrelated to the trams), and the other turning off to follow Church Street (Image) and then Strathleven Place. Further information about these routes, and about the history of trams in this area, can be found in the booklet "Dumbarton's Trams and Buses" (A W Brotchie and R L Grieves, 1985). Compare Image, which had also been the site of one of the burgh's tollhouses, and which was also the end-point of one of the town's tramlines.."> The former site of Dalreoch Toll
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The former site of Dalreoch Toll

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The former site of Dalreoch Toll

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 18 Feb 2013

The picture shows the junction of Cardross Road / Glasgow Road (in the foreground) and Renton Road (background, right). The building at the centre of the picture is more or less on the site of Dalreoch Toll. The tollhouse was still standing at the start of the twentieth century, although there had been no tolls on public roads since 1883 [see page 87 of I M M MacPhail's "Dumbarton through the Centuries" (1972)]. The tollhouse is the squat building that can be seen in the foreground of Alexander Kellock Brown's painting "Dumbarton in Glassmaking Days", shown at http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/dumbarton-in-glassmaking-days-194878 (at ArtUK). It can also been seen in two very similar paintings by I Clark: see http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/dumbarton-in-glassmaking-days-194883 (also at ArtUK). These paintings also show the three cones of the glassworks (see Image), Image, and Image Examination of the 25-inch OS map published in 1919 shows tramlines passing Dalreoch Toll (the tollhouse was then still standing). If the tramlines were still present today, they would be seen entering this photograph where the cars are stopped, and they would leave the picture at the lower right corner. Followed north from here, the line passed Image, already disused by then, on the way to Renton. Followed in the opposite direction, the line passed through the West Bridgend area of Dumbarton, crossed Image, and then followed the town's High Street. In the vicinity of Image, the line divided, with one branch continuing along Image (the lines visible in that picture are unrelated to the trams), and the other turning off to follow Church Street (Image) and then Strathleven Place. Further information about these routes, and about the history of trams in this area, can be found in the booklet "Dumbarton's Trams and Buses" (A W Brotchie and R L Grieves, 1985). Compare Image, which had also been the site of one of the burgh's tollhouses, and which was also the end-point of one of the town's tramlines.

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55.947815
Longitude
-4.580132