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Lawrence Avenue, HELENSBURGH, G84 7JJ

Residential street.

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.

← 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.

View SW under the line to Helensburgh Upper, Arrochar and Fort William and then the branch to Helensburgh Central: ex-North British Glasgow Queen Street - Fort William 'West Highland' line, Helensburgh Central being the western terminus of the electrified North Clyde Lines of Strathclyde Transport, to The left being Dumbarton, Clydebank and Glasgow, then Shettleston, Coatbridge and Airdrie.

The busy main road through Craigendoran runs parallel to this one, and can be seen on the left with yellow signs alongside it. An Image can be seen in this area.

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.

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.

The subject is as in Image, but the picture was taken 22 years later. For the platform, see Image This path to the station begins on Image

A path from Dennistoun Crescent leads via a subway under the West Highland line to the station platform. Trains run from here west to Helensburgh Central and east to Dumbarton, Glasgow and Edinburgh.