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Monkland Canal and railway
The canal emerges from under the Edinburgh - Helensburgh railway. The flow is distinctive here and when the photo was taken the water was so clear that the bottom (originally 4ft.6ins) could be seen.
Image: © Robert Murray
Taken: 13 May 2010
0.08 miles
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Towpath on the Monkland Canal near Bargeddie
National Cycle Route 75 follows the towpath to this point and then turns left to go through a housing estate and then Bargeddie. The canal stops a short distance further on. The rest of the canal to Port Dundas was converted to a culvert in the 1970s and most of it is now under the M8 motorway. Drumpellier Colliery Pits 3&4 were on the other side of the canal.
Image: © wrobison
Taken: 10 Sep 2022
0.09 miles
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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Ex-Caledonian 'Jumbo' 2F 0-6-0 No. 57416 (built in the 1890s, withdrawn 8/61) is in the centre, with LMS 2P 4-4-0s behind and probably an LNER D11 4-4-0 on the left - a gruesome scene.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
0.10 miles
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Oakridge Road, Bargeddie
The entrance road to the Drumpellier Lawns housing estate. National Cycle Route 75 goes through the estate then along the path starting at the blue sign to the Monkland Canal tow path.
Image: © wrobison
Taken: 20 Aug 2022
0.11 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
0.14 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
0.14 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
0.15 miles
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Heatheryknowe Railway
The cutting near the canal is now a swampy trackbed but it serves a purpose in being a boundary. North Lanarkshire is to the left and the city of Glasgow is to the right.
Image: © Robert Murray
Taken: 13 May 2010
0.16 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
0.20 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
0.20 miles