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Dalreoch Place, Renton Road, DUMBARTON, G82 4JY

As the map shows, the railway line passes under the road at about the point from which the picture was taken. The building is shown from a different angle, on the same day, in Image

They were built sometime between 2005 and 2010. They are shown from a different angle, on the same day, in Image

The viewpoint (at the side of the Renton Road) is very close to the OS grid line; compare Image

The picture shows the junction of Cardross Road / Glasgow Road (in the foreground) and Renton Road (background, right). The building at the centre of the picture is more or less on the site of Dalreoch Toll. The tollhouse was still standing at the start of the twentieth century, although there had been no tolls on public roads since 1883 [see page 87 of I M M MacPhail's "Dumbarton through the Centuries" (1972)]. The tollhouse is the squat building that can be seen in the foreground of Alexander Kellock Brown's painting "Dumbarton in Glassmaking Days", shown at http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/dumbarton-in-glassmaking-days-194878 (at ArtUK). It can also been seen in two very similar paintings by I Clark: see http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/dumbarton-in-glassmaking-days-194883 (also at ArtUK). These paintings also show the three cones of the glassworks (see Image), Image, and Image Examination of the 25-inch OS map published in 1919 shows tramlines passing Dalreoch Toll (the tollhouse was then still standing). If the tramlines were still present today, they would be seen entering this photograph where the cars are stopped, and they would leave the picture at the lower right corner. Followed north from here, the line passed Image, already disused by then, on the way to Renton. Followed in the opposite direction, the line passed through the West Bridgend area of Dumbarton, crossed Image, and then followed the town's High Street. In the vicinity of Image, the line divided, with one branch continuing along Image (the lines visible in that picture are unrelated to the trams), and the other turning off to follow Church Street (Image) and then Strathleven Place. Further information about these routes, and about the history of trams in this area, can be found in the booklet "Dumbarton's Trams and Buses" (A W Brotchie and R L Grieves, 1985). Compare Image, which had also been the site of one of the burgh's tollhouses, and which was also the end-point of one of the town's tramlines.

Passengers taking a return trip between one of Cardross, Craigendoran or Helensburgh and one of Renton, Alexandria and Balloch will find themselves crossing this footbridge in the same direction to change trains during both the outward and return legs of their journey. Trains destined for Helensburgh take the left branch and trains for Balloch take the right branch at the junction just beyond the footbridge.

This is about as well as the site can be seen from the roadside at Dalreoch, on the other side of the railway line. The Dennystown Forge site for travelling persons was established by West Dunbartonshire Council in 1981, with twenty pitches. The name of the site indicates the industries that were formerly located here: see Image Background details include the Image on the left, and the escarpment of Image on the right.