Shortly after 8 o’clock on the morning of Monday 21st May 1894, while a mineral train was proceeding on the Caledonian Railway from Newton to Blantyre, in the vicinity of Priory Colliery, the engine driver observed 4 men walking on the line with their backs to the advancing train. He reversed his engine, applied the […]
Here’s a little known story you may not have heard about. On Saturday 17th July 1880, some 142 years ago, a railway accident of alarming character happened near High Blantyre Station on the Strathaven branch of the Caledonian Railway. The train was timed to leave Hamilton Central at 1.55pm for Strathaven and at that time […]
An accident occurred on the morning of Tuesday 31st July 1928 which involved the derailment of a goods train at Broompark Farm, High Blantyre. The farm was tenanted by James Rochead, a former local farmer whose farm once stood alongside the Hamilton to Strathaven railway on the L.M.S. line at a location directly across from where Saint […]
During February 1931, Mr. Frank Wilson was an unemployed miner, living at 45 Merry’s Rows, Blantyre. On Monday 9th February 1931, Frank and his wife were clearly finding things difficult when the wife ventured across Glasgow Road and the railway to Craighead, to the woodland, intending on gathering some firewood. She headed towards the bing at […]