Seamey wrote:Someone mentioned the railway tunnel heading north of Maryhill Road under Ruchill. However there is also a tunnel under the shopping centre itself. When the centre was being built (early 80s) there were provisional plans for reopening the Maryhill railway line and there was to be a railway station across the road - where the Bingo carpark is.
Just at the point it used to cross the River Kelvin, that line came from
Kelvinbridge/Botanic Gardens/Kirklee and was met with another line
which began at what was Partick West station. This line travelled north
over Dumbarton Road and entered a tunnel (stil there) and re-appeared
near Crow Road (I think there was a station at Crow Road too). It then
passed under the current line at the site of the present Hyndland station,
headed north under Great Western Road, into another tunnel under
Kelvinside, before emerging near the Kelvin.
The two seperate bridges over the river are still in situ, and had formed a
junction prior to entering Maryhill station. You're right about the shopping
centre - they built a tunnel (only single track I think) under it in case it
was to be re-opened as either rail or a tram line.
Someone in another thread mentioned the section of this line that passed
through Maryhill and under the Canal. I'm not sure the current state of
play with those tunnels, but I suspect they may be blocked off. The line
had carried on to Possil, before looping around the north of the city
through Springburn and Barmulloch before heading south past the
Provan gas works, past the Forge & Celtic Park, before heading down
to Rutherglen junction. There's little of this section left as most of it was
on high embankments, bridges and viaducts - virtually all gone now.
James H