Here are a series of photos kindly taken by Alex Rochead during a site visit to the Cocksburn Railway Culvert. This is located at the Calder, north of Greenhall. These particular photos capture the culvert from the Greenhall side, at its outlet. The Cocksburn flows down from the fields above Mid Letterick, down into the […]
Recent discussions and posts about Cocksburn Culvert (built to permit the flow of Cocksburn under the embankment for Greenhall Railway Viaduct), prompted Blantyre man Alex Rochead to get on his walking shoes and take a visit to the site. Alex told me “He had often walked up the old railway from Blantyre past Mid Lettrick towards […]
I was recently asked, “Have you noticed how the Cocks Burn got interrupted by the railway? (see attached map). I take it, it flows under the embankment in some sort of culvert,” The Cocksburn flows down from Mid Letterick, North of Crossbasket, into the Calder woodlands and is shown on this map with the railway […]