On the morning of Thursday 25th June 1908, the wooden signal cabin at Hunthill Railway Junction burned to the ground. The cabin sat on the elevated railway line at High Blantyre and was located where the top of Stonefield Crescent is today. It was an important signal box, being situated on the junction of the […]
At the end of July 1913, five young Blantyre miners found themselves in hot water standing in the dock at Hamilton Sheriff Court. They were charged with trespassing on the railway siding beside the Auchinraith Signal Cabin belonging to the North British Railway Company on 25th June that year. Their plea was guilty, explaining that […]
In 1863 the Caledonian Railway opened a loop line branching off their main Glasgow to Hamilton line, sweeping up into Blantyre and heading northwards, under Glasgow Road, over fields at Springwell and onwards through developing Blantyre, up to a new High Blantyre Station. On 1st May 1882, a spur was added leading from this […]
Pictured here in 1904 is High Blantyre Cemetery and also the signal railway box that sat near the railway line, over the wall at the time. The signal box you see, is actually the top of it, being raised high above the railway. Had it survived it would have been close to Burnbrae Road today. […]
Alex Rochead recently showed me this photo allegedly of Auchinraith junction. Wanting to double check its location, one evening, on the way back from work today, i did a scout-about for 5 minutes. The buildings on the right are Springwells. They are numbers 45 and 47 Springwells Crescent and match the appearance of them exactly […]