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Crow Road Station

Postby Timchilli » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:27 pm

drcrippen and I had a little tour of some hidden sites today. We stumbled across what we believe used to be Crow Road Station (closed 1960; station buildings demolished 1970).

Can anyone confirm this?

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Crow Road

Postby drcrippen » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:34 pm

Actually Tim, I'm almost 100% sure it is crow road station, as the ticket office stradled the bridge. Just got to find some pics of it which is proving damn difficult.

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Stationsand tunnels.

Postby drcrippen » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:42 pm

Tim failed to mention that we actually visited 5 old stations today and several tunnels and bridges and got some great pics. They will follow tomorrow, just to keep you waiting.

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Postby drcrippen » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:47 pm

Tim, you say thornwood/crow road, is it looking down crow road or thornwood, help me get orientated!

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Re: Stationsand tunnels.

Postby Timchilli » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:48 pm

drcrippen wrote:Tim failed to mention that we actually visited 5 old stations today and several tunnels and bridges and got some great pics. They will follow tomorrow, just to keep you waiting.

...and got ankle-deep in pidgeon keich.

How does the video footage look, Jimmock?

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Postby drcrippen » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:51 pm

Yeah, having probs with camera. Will check it again tomorrow. Stupid timecode isn't working.

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Re: Building

Postby Timchilli » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:51 pm

drcrippen wrote:Tim, you say thornwood/crow road, is it looking down crow road or thornwood, help me get orientated!

You're looking down towards Dumbarton Road. The building with the clock tower is now an horrendous block of modern flats. We walked up the lane to the left (beside the brick wall) today in our quest to find the other portal. The Sainsbury's complex would be on your left about 200m from where the photo is taken.

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Re: Building

Postby Dexter St. Clair » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:02 am

drcrippen wrote:Tim, you say thornwood/crow road, is it looking down crow road or thornwood, help me get orientated!

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Isn't the shop on the right Stupart's the hairdressers?
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Postby montrose » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:16 pm

i think looking at the photo that the person taking the picture was standing on crow road at the junction with thornwood. Stupart's the hairdressers, would be just out of shot i think.
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Postby drcrippen » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:21 pm

Sorry, Tim, the video footage is buggered. Will have to make a return visit to all our stops to refilm it :(

My apologies once again for getting your hopes up!

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Postby montrose » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:43 am

ahhh my mistake it is stuparts ....had another good look at the photo and the map. sorry


cant baleive that i lived around their til january and new nothing of tunnels and stations.....god bless this site :D
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Re: Building

Postby Pgcc93 » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:04 am

Dexter St. Clair wrote:
drcrippen wrote:Tim, you say thornwood/crow road, is it looking down crow road or thornwood, help me get orientated!

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Isn't the shop on the right Stupart's the hairdressers?


Stuparts seems to have been there for ever. Someone told me it's been there since the late 1940's or early 50's. the style of the interior is classic of the period thats for sure, not many traditional Gents barbers left like these nowadays. ( This could be a thread on it's own :) ?)

Next time I'm in I'll ask the resident crimpers ( Allan & Wullie) if they have any memories of the nearby station. ::):
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Re: Building

Postby Timchilli » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:09 pm

Pgcc93 wrote:Next time I'm in I'll ask the resident crimpers ( Allan & Wullie) if they have any memories of the nearby station. ::):

Bit of a long-shot, but see if they've got any photos of the station, Pgcc!

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Postby stranger » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:35 pm

it does look a lot like crow rd station
i havent been there for years does the line lead straight into a
tunnel behind the camera?
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Re: Building

Postby Pgcc93 » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:29 pm

Timchilli wrote:
Pgcc93 wrote:Next time I'm in I'll ask the resident crimpers ( Allan & Wullie) if they have any memories of the nearby station. ::):

Bit of a long-shot, but see if they've got any photos of the station, Pgcc!

Cheers,

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I was in Stuparts today for a short back and sides and asked the if they had any gen on Crow Road station.

Allan didn't even know that it existed! But Wullie knew of it but it was all before their time.
The original owner Gordon Stupart would be your man though as he had the business from 1958 but he's retired now. They didn't have any pics I'm afraid. They didn't even have something for the weekend. ::):
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