• The Hamiltonhill Branch was constructed by the Caledonian Railway in 1894 with the intention to provide a large goods yard at Hamiltonhill on the Forth...
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  • Dundas to the south. To the west of Hamiltonhill is a nature reserve bordering the Forth and Clyde Canal's Glasgow Branch section (with Firhill Stadium on...
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    the City Union Line was extended to Springburn in 1871, and the Hamiltonhill Branch Line opened in 1894. Initially located outside the Glasgow boundary...
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    Inveresk; a short mineral branch to Tranent, opened in 1849; the North Berwick branch from Drem, opened in 1850; the Dunse branch line, opened in 1849; Dunse...
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  • built a branch to Ballachulish, which included the construction of Connel Bridge, a remarkable bridge at Connel over Loch Etive. The branch opened in...
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    Extension Cowlairs Cumbernauld Line Maryhill Line Hamiltonhill Branch Bishopbriggs Lenzie Campsie Branch Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Croy Dullatur...
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    line from Edinburgh to Berwick-upon-Tweed with a 4-mile-50-chain (7.4 km) branch to Haddington. The company's chairman and founder was John Learmonth, the...
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    part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Although its shorter branches have closed, former Highland Railway lines remain open from Inverness to...
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    its network and reached Edinburgh and Aberdeen, with a dense network of branch lines in the area surrounding Glasgow. It was absorbed into the London,...
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    network have been electrified. Many of the earlier mineral workings, and branches constructed to serve them, have ceased, and many local passenger stations...
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    Glasgow in Scotland, was developed by a company known as The Lesmahagow Branches (later known as The Lesmahagow Guarantee Company). It was not an independent...
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    The Coatbridge Branch of the North British Railway was a railway built to connect the important coal and iron industrial districts of Coatbridge and Airdrie...
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  • of the Fraserburgh branch, and in fact the company had considered abandoning it. However it decided to alter the route, branching from the Peterhead line...
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  • Coalburn Branch was a branch line constructed by the Caledonian Railway from Lesmahagow railway station to Bankend railway station. It was the main branch of...
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  • connecting Maryhill in the north west of the city with Dalmarnock, on a short branch from Rutherglen on the main line, in the south east. It would run through...
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    line CR Cleland and Midcalder CR Main Line CR Douglas Branch CR Hamilton Branch CR Hamiltonhill Branch CR The Switchback Independent lines worked by the Caledonian...
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  • agreement.[page needed] The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opened its Shieldhill branch on 28 August 1847. This ran from the Slamannan Railway at Causewayend, heading...
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    railway station Railscot on the Maybole and Girvan Railway Video footage of the old Girvan Harbour Branch Video footage of the old Girvans Goods Station...
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    and sanctioning the Leith Branch. The third act of Parliament, the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway (Dalkeith and Leith Branches) Act 1834 (4 & 5 Will. 4...
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  • Street terminus, on the north-east side of the city. A branch from Balornock to Hamiltonhill had been promoted in 1883; intended to serve iron foundries...
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    The North Berwick Branch is a short railway branch line built by the North British Railway to connect North Berwick, in East Lothian, Scotland to the East...
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    River Spey, and then to Elgin and along the coast via Nairn to Inverness. Branch lines to Banff, Portsoy, Garmouth and Burghead would total 30+1⁄2 miles...
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    access to his foundry from both the North British Railway and the Hamiltonhill Branch of the Caledonian Railway, MacFarlane laid out the rest of the park...
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  • The Darvel Branch was an extension of the former Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway in Scotland built by the Glasgow and South Western Railway...
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  • Line. The North British Railway had opened its Bridgeton terminus, on a branch from High Street, and a short spur was proposed to enable eastbound trains...
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  • significant part of the traffic. The first section to open was the Campsie branch of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, to Lennoxtown, in 1848; this became...
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  • made from a junction to the Clarkston Wester Monkland branch back to Stepends, with a short branch there for Wilson & Co of Summerlee Iron Works. Wilson...
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  • Tayport ferry terminal has closed, and some sections of the Dunfermline branch have closed. The natural barrier of the Firth of Forth had for centuries...
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    Aberdeen Junction Railway, together forming the Highland Railway. A short branch to Aberfeldy was built by the company 1865, and this closed in 1965. Towards...
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  • coast so as to serve the numerous fishing villages there, but a set of branch lines, as well as a completely independent coastal railway through Banff...
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