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Picture taken from the trackbed, looking south to Lenzie, this was Kirkintilloch's rail connection to the outside world, and through the arch was one of Kirkintilloch's TWO railway stations, this halt - "Back o' Loch", and the main station for the town was 0.75km further north. The line left the main Glasgow to Edinburgh route just east of Lenzie station, and headed northwards to Kirkintilloch and the Campsie valley (Lennoxtown, Strathblane & Blanefield). A junction at Whitegates provided a spur to the Forth & Clyde canal for the shipment of coal at Middlemuir Basin (now infilled). The bridge is scheduled for demolition as it is in the way of the new Kirkintilloch 'Link Road' which will use much of the railway's southern alignment to Lenzie and onwards to an extended M80 motorway at Muirhead.

This memorial is located in Industry Street, and is in memory of the Dalrymples, and erected in 1905. The inscription reads; "Presented to the town of Kirkintilloch by James D G Dalrymple of Woodhead. Senior Magistrate of the burgh of Barony of Kirkintilloch. 1905". Whilst it might seem a good idea of self publicity, it is highly unlikely whether anyone would tolerate the self publicity of 'gifting' a memorial to yourself in your local town, but perhaps magistrates were held in higher regard then. On the other faces of the memorial are listed all the male members of the Dalrymple bloodline from the 1700's.

Flats and shops at the junction of Townhead and Industry Street, Kirkintilloch.

To the left is Waterside Road (the B757), which continues to the right as Townhead. Straight on is Industry Street.

This used to be a major junction in the town, with the main street continuing through the junction to Industry Street and onwards to Oxgang and Waterside. However the first phase of the town's link road (accessed by turning left) effectively emasculated Industry street by severing it a few hundred metres past this junction - and the Dalrymple Memorial can just be discerned in the sunlight (see other Geograph for a closer view). The road on the right leads south to Whitegates and Lenzie.

Seen from Waterside Road.

Neat and distinctive houses at the northern end of Woodhead Avenue. I was born in the further of this pair of semi-detached houses late in 1956, and there is little outward sign of change since that time apart from hedges and trees.