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Locomotive graveyard at Bargeddie
Ex-Caledonian 'Jumbo' 2F 0-6-0 No. 57416 (built in the 1890s, withdrawn 8/61) is in the centre, with LMS 2P 4-4-0s behind and probably an LNER D11 4-4-0 on the left - a gruesome scene.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 5 Oct 1961
0.06 miles
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Locomotive being scrapped near Bargeddie
View eastward on the ex-NB Glasgow - Airdrie line just east of the former Bargeddie station on that line, where in 1961 many redundant locomotives and coaches were being disposed of. (See also my
Image). A man with a cutting-torch is enjoying(?) reducing to scrap an - unidentified - LMS 2P 4-4-0. (The horrible scene reminds me of the Dissecting Room at Medical School).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 5 Oct 1961
0.08 miles
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'Lucy Ashton', an LNE 4-4-0, awaits her fate at the Bargeddie Scrapyard
Together with a sister engine behind her, No. 62680 'Lucy Ashton' (a D11/2 'Improved Director' 4-4-0), which had been since 1924 on LNER (ex-North British) passenger trains in Central Scotland, was recently condemned at Eastfield (Glasgow) Shed and is 'awaiting the torch', next to the LMS 4-4-0 depicted in
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Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 5 Oct 1961
0.09 miles
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Site of Bargeddie Station
This is the then recently electrified Helensburgh - Glasgow (Queen Street Low Level) - Coatbridge - Airdrie line, with seemingly no trace of Bargeddie station, as it was closed to passengers on 24/9/27 (but not for Goods until 6/7/64). On 4/10/93 a new Bargeddie station was opened on the Glasgow (Central) - Rutherglen - Whifflet line, as seen on the modern map at NS6963. Confusing?
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 5 Oct 1961
0.10 miles
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Communications mast
View from Cuilhill Road.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 29 Jun 2017
0.12 miles
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Railway store and radio mast
The little building might have been built as a detonator store in the last days of steam.
Image: © Robert Murray
Taken: 13 May 2010
0.12 miles
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Monkland Canal, near Cuilhill
The modern western terminal of the canal. Everything west of this point was buried in two culverted pipes.
Image: © Robert Murray
Taken: 13 May 2010
0.12 miles
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Railway coach being burnt at Scrapyard near Bargeddie
In 1961 this was the site by the ex-North British line between Glasgow and Coatbridge, where much rolling-stock was being broken up for scrap. The coach appears to be an ex-NB non-corridor vehicle.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 5 Oct 1961
0.12 miles
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Monkland canal near Cuilhill
The Monkland canal emptying into two 24 inch pipes in which it flows underground west to Port Dundas, Glasgow.
Image: © Robert Murray
Taken: 16 Jan 2004
0.13 miles
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Monkland Canal Sluice, Cuilhill
Where the canal terminates as a surface waterway and disappears into two 24 inch pipes. The solar panel is a recent addition to the scene here, what for is somwehat a mytsery.
See
Image for a closer look.
Image: © Robert Murray
Taken: 13 May 2010
0.13 miles