Blackstoun Road railway bridge
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Blackstoun Road railway bridge by Thomas Nugent as part of the Geograph project.
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Blackstoun Road railway bridge
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 20 Nov 2016
The bridge was built for the long gone Paisley and Barrhead District Railway line (known locally as the Dummy Line) http://railway.paisleyhistory.uk/pbdr.html . It was used as recently as the 1980s as a spur for the car factory at Linwood which closed at that time. Prior to the car factory, it also served as a spur for the Pressed Steel factory at Linwood which produced the "blue trains" (Class 303), which were the first electric trains for the north and south Clyde lines in the 1960s. Several mineral lines also ran in this area, a description of which can be found here http://rlhf.info/wp-content/uploads/12.8-Linwoods-Lost-Railways-Wilson.pdf .
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Image Location
Latitude
55.851048
Longitude
-4.459951