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Orchid Way, GLASGOW, G78 1FJ

The view is from Grahamston Road, almost opposite the junction with Blackbyres Road. A pylon can be seen in the distance. What probably caught my attention here, as seeming subtly wrong or out-of-place, was the lines of trees on each side: though it is hard to discern from here, where they are seen receding into the distance, both lines are in fact parallel to the direction of view. Reference to old maps reveals that those lines of trees correspond to the sides of what was once the course of a railway line. The photograph is therefore a view directly down the former course of that line, which is now long gone: it was already marked as a "dismantled railway line" on the OS map revision of 1947, though an adjacent line just to the south was then still in existence. An earlier OS map revision of 1911—12 labels the line whose former course is shown in my picture "G. & S.W.R. Paisley & Barrhead Branch", while the one immediately to the south of it, which survived a little longer, is annotated "C.R. Paisley & Barrhead Line" (and "L.M.S.R. Paisley & Barrhead Line" on the 1947 map).

On Grahamston Road at the northern edge of Barrhead.

On Grahamston Road at the northern edge of Barrhead.

Off Grahamston Road.

The small tunnel allows Harelaw Burn to pass beneath a former railway embankment. The larger tunnel took a different railway line under the embankment.

On Grahamston Road.

The track runs along the back of the modern properties on Grahamston Park. The OS 25 inch maps surveyed in 1857, 1897, 1910 and 1934 all show the line of the track marked as a strip of woodland, following field edges, but the 1:1,250/1:2,500 map of 1949-1956 shows it is a track. Today it is more a path than a track and has many trees along its length once again.

Farm access under an old mineral line.