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Interesting links there Apollo. In one of them it mentions how the Glasgow Diocese moved to Cardross in 1946: St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross, was born out of the need to replace St. Peter’s College, Bearsden, which was destroyed by fire in 1946. The college was moved to Darleith House in 1946, and in...

I wouldn't have described the college as being NNW of the golf course, NNE perhaps but it depends where you are on the course! Access to the site by road used to be possible from both the Carman Road and the Barrs Road. The former was the main access. After the college closed I think it was the adja...

Hi d_s, great site. Is the Notre Dame site in Dumbarton or elsewhere in the county. When I was a wee lad in the early 60's I used to hitch a lift on a milk van that did deliveries to a convent in Dumbarton called Notre Dame. Never saw the inside of the place, just the "back door" where the deliverie...

There is a picture of the station in the wee book, "The Last Trains" edited by WS Sellar and JL Stevenson, by Moorfoot Publishing of Edinburgh in 1980 (unfortunately don't have access to a scanner at the moment).It suggests that passenger services ended in the first week of April 1951. I seem to rec...

I always thought that odds were on one side of the street and evens on the other until I ended up living "ere in Lanky". Someone obviously thought it was a bright idea when they built this estate in the 70's to number in each street (they are all cul-de-sacs) down the left side to the end and back o...

I'm with Viceroy on this one. However I hear today that the person who was shot may have run from the police because his Visa had run out and that he had been working although he may have only had a student Visa. I hope that anyone else who is challenged by the police in these troubled times will he...

Aha, they have reached Glasgow! Were showing in Blackpool on Sunday but couldn't get across to see it. Sounds like it will be worth a viewing when it gets on the box.

Still going though, into it's second century and after WW2 when it suffered a bit of damage. Maybe it is because it's the German approach to public transport or maybe it's because it is unique!

A real wee gem here CB, there's so much history in this shot
Is that a sign behind the lamp post in the left foreground which says "STATION"? If so which one?

Although there is no guide rail underneath, there are similarities with the structure and suspension of the carraiges. No propellors though!! http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/misc/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn/pix.html[url] It does seem a complicated system even if it does save on land by running above r...

Some of the previous posts suggested that this sort of system wouldn't have been viable, from both the propulsion system and the complicated gantry structure aspects. I have however seen a not dis-similar gantry structure used for a railway system in Germany, Wuppertal area IIRC and that was in the ...

Filled in cuttings and alike haven't stopped the reopening of closed lines before now. A few years ago when a line was reopened in the East Midlands (Robin Hood line I think) they excavated a filled in cutting and tunnel. In the process several houses which had been built after the line closed were ...

Thanks for the link, at least the line was documented before it's demise. Didn't know about the spur round to the G&SW.

As JBH states, it is impossible to get anything done on todays railways without bureaucratic rubber stamps. Once upon a time the railways were run by professional railwaymen and those that set the rules and standards were from that background. Today there are some areas which have been downskilled b...

What a waste the destruction of so much infrastructure (thanks for the pictures). Even if it was not going to be reused as a railway or rapid transit system the one thing the UK lacks are decent cycle routes. All too often the planners simply put a cycle lane as a painted off area on the side of an ...