Full steam ahead for plan to use old rail route to link two villages [Barrhead News]
Date: 27/08/2020
Plans to use an old railway line to create a new path linking Neilston and Uplawmoor for walking, cycling and wheeling are firmly on track.
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Full steam ahead for plan to use old rail route to link two villages
Barrhead News
PLANSto use an old railway line to create a new path linking Neilston and Uplawmoor for walking, cycling and wheeling are firmly on track.
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A view of the concrete southbound platform at Uplawmoor taken from the remains of the northbound platform. To the north/east of here the trackbed remained in a remarkable state of preservation for several miles in the 1980s with each sleeper indentation obvious in the ballast, up until it was dug up for a gas main. [Ref query 1024]
Location: Uplawmoor [1st]
Company: Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
//1999 Ewan Crawford
Location: Uplawmoor [1st]
Company: Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
//1999 Ewan Crawford
BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T 80113 reaches the end of its journey as it runs into Uplawmoor station on 11 July 1956 with the 5.42pm train from Glasgow Central.
Location: Uplawmoor [1st]
Company: Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
11/07/1956 G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Location: Uplawmoor [1st]
Company: Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
11/07/1956 G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow
With the buffer at Neilston at my back this is the view towards Uplawmoor showing the disused trackbed. This was still easily walkable for miles in the 1980s, looks trickier now.
Location: Neilston
Company: Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
14/09/2017 Ewan Crawford
Location: Neilston
Company: Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
14/09/2017 Ewan Crawford
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