On Saturday 25th August 1896, a peculiar find on the High Blantyre railway track had police and authorities left with a puzzling mystery.
A large quantity of dynamite was found on the railway track at High Blantyre, quite by chance. Police were called for and the officers were immediately engaged in endeavouring to find out who had placed the explosives on the line near the Hunthill junction and why. Was this a malicious act with more sinister intent?
The quantity seemed odd, significant enough to have thought NOT to have been dropped by some pit sinkers walking the line on their way to work. It was easy to imagine what may have happened if the explosives had ignited upon a passing train!
I couldn’t find any follow up to this story and left presuming the explosives would have been removed at once with the perpetrators not being found.
The Hunthill Road is pictured 64 years later in 1962 from the elevated vantage point of the former railway line.
