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GLASGOW'S DISUSED RAILWAYS - Stobcross to Possil 1981, by Douglas Thomson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2024
- A very rare 1080p high definition slide show of the entire route of this historical disused track bed between the above locations, all off which have since almost entirely disappeared.
Includes every former station, using my own fully restored original colour views from 1981. Where possible, anonymous older black & white views of the stations while still in operation have also been included for added nostalgic atmosphere and enjoyment.
Thank you for taking the time to document these disused lines back in the day. It is heart breaking to know that the vast majority of what we see has gone forever . Respect.
Many thanks for your kind comments, Billy, I thought the very same, and is why I put these videos together for others to see
Great set of photographs. Such a shame that this infrastructure has been lost, the cost of the original construction must have been massive. A lack of foresight as this route and the stations would be very popular today.
Priceless documentational photos! The way I remember parts of Partick, Thornwood, Broomhill and Hyndland in the early 80s
what a enjoyable video what was once were working stations are now disused full of weeds used for fly tipping and unloved 😥
lovely pictures dear Thanks for sharing Love from Edinburgh.
worked next to the possil train station for a few years in the 00s always wondered what the building use to be used for thats a 25 year question answered
I'm in love with Glasgow 🍸 such a glorious-looking city
I have a model railway which I loosely call Partickhill because I lived on Vine St.
I just finished a scale model of a tenement similar to the one we lived in. I would like to build a model of The Partick Central building but I don’t have any dimensional info.
Can you tell me what size the stones were used for the retaining walls up toward Crow Road Station ? I am guessing 3’-0 X 1’-0
I didn’t realize that line went under Hyndland Station.
I have memories of being up at Dawsholm Park exploring and I think there were trains there at the time, that would have been the late 60’s early 60’s
You have done a great job to preserve this history. I know the effort you have put into this .
Thank you
Charlie
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Is this route still accessible? The reason I am asking is it says 1981. They have a habit of building on old tracks
Yes, because it's 1981 Martin, you're correct about accessibility - very little remains to be seen today of this particular video entry, hence it's archiving on TH-cam.
At a push, the bridge at Partick in this photo shown here still exists, as does a blocked tunnel entrance, bridge and small piece of platform all at Crow Road station. There's also still both gated tunnel entrances and the nicely restored building at Kelvinside Station to be seen.
The only other remains on this route today are the now 2 inaccessible Kelvin viaducts leading towards the former Maryhill Station site, and the now severely dilapidated station building at Possil, on Balmore Road.
Is that tunnel under Hyndland station still accessible at both ends ?
The entrance under Hyndland Station was fully bricked up shortly after the shot was taken, but still has a padlocked access door. The attractive north entrance (and the entire site after it up to Kelvinside Station) has long since been fully filled up to street level with a vast housing estate built on top of that.
@@douglasthomson513 thanks for this info, I had a look at some pictures to see where it ends but never found and area but the Hyndland station entrance is still there but ends shortly after
@@BFsTransportVideos It must have taken thousands of tons of earth to fill up the whole area to street level to take the weight of an entire housing estate, but I'd say the tunnel itself still exists underneath it. The exact same thing was done further up the line in this same video, with all the bridges and tunnels between Maryhill Central and Ruchill Golf Course, who purchased the land at their end of the tunnel to allow uninterrupted play on their course without golf balls falling down into the long cutting between their tunnels (I found a few myself in the cutting when I took these shots!). Again thousands of tons of earth must have been used, which has now totally grown over and blended in with the original landscape. Nowadays unsuspecting visitors to the golf course would ever know a blocked off railway presumably still exists beneath it!
@@douglasthomson513 yes I saw today that the first part of the tunnel under Hyndland tunnel is still there for about 90 yards before it ends abruptly
Beeching should've been jailed for it.