Calderwood Glen Platform
Location type
StationName and dates
Calderwood Glen Platform (1907-1939)Opened on the Blantyre to East Kilbride Line (Caledonian Railway).
Description
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.
The platform was on the south side of the single line.
The track formation remains relatively intact but little remains of the halt. Much of the estate is now the eastern part of East Kilbride.
The Rotten Calder Viaduct was to the east.
Local
To the south is Calderlgen Country Park .
Tags
Station halt excursion platformExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
04/08/2020
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