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GLASGOW'S DISUSED RAILWAYS - Possil to Dalmarnock 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 freight-only track bed between the above locations, all of which have since almost entirely disappeared.
The views are entirely from my own fully restored original colour collection from 1981, featuring entire areas now either very overgrown, built upon, or totally eliminated and impossible to trace altogether.
What a fantastic set of images, and so well compiled to show the route. Brilliant, Douglas! Thank you.
another fantastic presentation, great to see a lot views that just don't exist anymore, all your vids are brilliant, thanks for all your work
Absolutely superb. Many thanks for all your hard work.
My pleasure!
Glasgow had all the infrastructure for a light railway / tram system. Gone. Mostly for housing that could have went elsewhere. Look how much space the roads take up in comparison to a railway line. Didn't we have ANY forward thinking town planners back then. Or was it, I suspect, all about developers making a fast buck.
Excellent photographs. Thanks for that.
When I saw the tramline get built in Edinburgh I thought it surely would have suited glasgow better.
A lot of old routes have been built on. Trains were considered old technology and cars the future. Glasgow needs the subway extended and a tram/light rail service. But the subway extension and the Glasgow airport were axed fro the tram service. I live in East Kilbride where we were promised double track and a 15 mins service, only for the Scottish Government to suddenly backtrack and build a tram extension. I don't think the SNP care about Glasgow and the west.
Wish I could get a copy of the Balornock tunnel section. So many memories of the embankment and tunnel through to the red ash fitbaw fields. Thanks Douglas for the memory jerker.
We used to play solgees (soldiers lol) down the dummy railway in the 80s between Chirnside school and Crowhill street. My wee nana used to live on Crowhill st overlooking Eastfield depot 😃
I do remember some of this route around Celtic Park. But every part of it is now gone
So much has gone. Another of my old playgrounds, the embankment from Edinburgh Road down to bridges at Duke St/Todd St lights. Although you had to be careful as it was the border of Powry and Goucho gangs.
Wish I could get a copy of some these for my geocache pages.
I plan to make the best of the whole series available on my FB page, probably just after new year. Which ones were you most interested in?
That shot at 2:55. 👌
I was born, raised, and went to school in the immediate vicinity of the image at 02:33, but was always puzzled by the question of how the line crossed Wallacewell Road when it was in situ.
I had always believed that there must have been a bridge which crossed the road here, however I have been looking at a map from the period after WWII, and it seems that Wallacewell Road was in fact bisected by an embankment which carried the railway all the way across the place where the road now runs, uninterrupted - although there does appear to be some kind of break in the centre of the embankment on the map (but that may just be my poor map-reading skills!)
Does anyone recall the exact layout of the railway and Wallacewell Road at the time when trains ran over the line there?
That's fascinating if true, Laurence. I walked along that section of Wallacewell Road in both directions every day to Barmulloch College for a whole year, back in the late 1970s, and had always assumed there had been some kind of iron bridge across the road to carry the line, as the height of the embankment on both sides seemed about right. It did occur to me at the time that the road may have only been a single carriageway while the line was in operation, and the road only widened after the assumed standard-width bridge had been removed. I can't presently find any good vintage online map of the area, but you certainly got me thinking about it cheers!
@@douglasthomson513 My mother also went to the school I attended (which is situated only yards from the photograph), and I recall having a conversation with her about Wallacewell Road when I was about ten years old.
All I recall of what she said, is that the road "didn't go all the way up as it does today". I think you could be right in that an iron bridge crossed over here, and was removed in order to facilitate a widening of the road.
I left the area a decade ago, but I'll ask around and if I get an answer I'll post it here. Cheers, Douglas.
@@laurenceegan6136 Thanks Laurence, it would be great to hear of any info about it as I have fond memories of this particular area, including when I took the shots.
@@douglasthomson513 I found some information on this last night whilst searching for something else, Douglas.
It seems that there was indeed a bridge, and it was removed soon after the line's closure in 1966. This information can be found at springburnsrailways.blogspot.com
There isn't a lot of detail on the bridge, but the blog is quite comprehensive in terms of the history of the railway lines, sheds, stations, and sidings etc. of Springburn and the surrounding areas.
@@laurenceegan6136 Many thanks for finding this very interesting read, Laurence! A lot of useful vintage info on all the lines around these areas that I've never read before. As you say there was a bridge over Wallacewell Road, which confirms the height of the remaining railway embankments at that point in the road. If one of us finds a photo of the bridge it would be good to post it up here cheers..
Could have been used for a greenway, cycle path, or jogging track instead of a dumping ground
My total thought exactly!!!!!