Pictured in Summer 2017 by Alex Rochead, is the other side of the Priory Bridge roadbridge. This twin culvert is pictured on the downstream side (not from from the Priory Bridge Housing Estate). Built in 1928, it’s a scene not many of us have seen before, usually missing it completely as we drive over the […]
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 […]
In October 2014, I was contacted by Andy Bain who said whilst out walking recently in Low Blantyre (when the River Clyde was low), he observed what looked like a tunnel and a nearby structure. The ‘Tunnel’ was photographed from the opposite side of the river in July 2014 during a real dry spell and […]