Port Downie Basin
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Port Downie BasinDescription
This was a canal basin at junction of the Union Canal with the Forth and Clyde Canal. It was named for Robert Downie of Appin House. The first part of the Union Canal was a long flight of 11 locks and basins.
A considerable number of works opened next to the canal going westwards from the basin:
Gael Foundry
Portdownie Iron Works
Portdownie Chemical Works
Forth and Clyde Iron Works
Camelon Chemical Works
These works were also served, from the south east, by the Rough Castle Branch (North British Railway).
The flight of locks fell out of use in the 1930s. The locks and basin were progressively infilled.
The Union Inn remains here on the west side of the former basin.
For the re-opening of the canals the Falkirk Wheel was built further west, with the Union Canal being extended beyond its original western end.
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Canal basin
| Nearby stations Camelon [1st] Falkirk Camelon [1st] Camelon Falkirk High Falkirk Grahamston Larbert Bonnybridge Thornbridge Halt Bonnybridge Canal Goods Bonnybridge Central Greenhill Upper Greenhill Grangemouth Alloa Junction Denny | Camelon Goods [NB] Lock 16 [FCC] Camelon Goods [CR] Lock 15 [FCC] Portdownie Iron Works Portdownie Chemical Works Lock 14 [FCC] Forth and Clyde Iron Works Falkirk Chemical Works Camelon Colliery Pit No 2 Camelon Chemical Works Lock 13 [FCC] Summerford Viaduct Lock 12 [FCC] South Bantaskin Colliery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
