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Dennistoun Crescent, HELENSBURGH, G84 7JF

A ScotRail train lies abandoned at Craigendoran Railway Station during heavy snow. The train was conducting a proving run between Yoker depot and Helensburgh Central and became stuck in a snowdrift at the station The train was left overnight and was picked up the next day and taken back to Yoker depot. As seen the pantograph is down, and there is snow seen on the roof of the train.

The lane runs between Moore Drive and Dennistoun Crescent, giving access to the rear of the properties on both streets. It continues under the railway and joins a track beside the shore.

The track leads around the land at the head of the beach, as mentioned in Image Craigendoran Station lies straight ahead along the track; the footbridge of the station can be seen in the distance. To the left, a sea wall curves out into the Firth of Clyde: Image The remains of some piers are located at its far end: Image

Seen from the junction with Marmion Avenue.

This milepost is on an old section of Cardross Road in Craigendoran, where the A814 has been straightened slightly. One of 4 remaining on the 8 mile stretch of road between Dumbarton and Helensburgh probably set up in the late 19C.

← DUNBARTON CROSS 7 MILES → HELENSBURGH 1 MILE The milestone stands beside Cardross Road, the main road through Craigendoran: Image A mile to the south-east is another milestone built to the same pattern (Image), and there is another Image All of these stones were set up before 1860. They feature the spelling Dunbarton (rather than Dumbarton) because the Commissioners of Supply, and the Trustees for the Turnpike Roads, who had oversight of such matters, were drawn from the country gentry, who appear to have been attracted to the mock antiquity of the spelling (although they were not entirely consistent: Image). [Much earlier, the minister James Oliphant (Image) had given the "Dun-" variant an air of respectability by employing it (for both the burgh and the county) in the Old Statistical Account (1792).] However, it was only considerably later (in the 1930s) that a County Clerk persuaded the OS to use the "Dun-" spelling for the county name [see pages 47 and 92-94 of I M M MacPhail's "Lennox Lore" (1987)]. Not far away, an old Image is, despite appearances, essentially the same. The metal part has simply been set in front of a wall rather than in front of a stone structure built specially for it.

This shows the milepost in Craigendorran that is on the old piece of road with a view of the straightened A814 and bus-stop. Another milepost on its own little wall.

The concrete blocks visible on the slope are the same ones as are shown in Image However, a low stone structure that can be seen in front of the embankment, gently sloping down towards the water, is the remains of an old slipway.

The large super-yacht,"Eclipse", belonging to Roman Abramovich, shows anchored off Greenock across the Clyde. Eclipse is 557 ft long and has recently been cruising the Scottish west coast, calling at Lochranza, Rothesay, Port Ellen and Oban over recent days. The sunken hulk in front and to the left of Eclipse is the wreck of MV Captayannis, a sugar ship which dragged its anchor in 1974 and was beached on a sandbank.