Blantyre to East Kilbride Line (Caledonian Railway)
Introduction
This line is mostly open. This was a single track extension of Busby Railway to the Hamilton and Strathaven Railway in High Blantyre. The Hamilton to East Kilbride section is now closed.
Dates
Locations along the line
These locations are along the line.
This station has a single platform and is a terminus. A loop at the terminus survived until 2005. To the west, the Hairmyres Loop opened in 1990.
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See also
Busby Railway
Bill Roberton 22/11/2021
John Yellowlees 08/03/2016
David Bosher 02/10/2018
Brian Haslehust 20/08/1965
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More details
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/05/1959
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/05/1959
Fraser Cochrane 02/07/2008
This was an excursion platform for the Calderwood Estate. The former estate of the Maxwells was sold to the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society in 1904 for fruit production. It became an early country park.
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This was an eleven span viaduct west of Hunthill Junction and east of Calderwood Glen Platform.
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Ewan Crawford //1997
Hunthill Junction was immediately north of High Blantyre, which unfortunately was not served by it. Just west on the East Kilbride route was the Rotten Calder Viaduct.
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See also
Hamilton and Strathaven Railway
