maybe a bit tenuous , but i was looking through this site earlier, i suppose a lot of folk don't realise why the M8 goes a bit rollercoaster near the mitchell.
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/media/photo/abovethem8/14.shtml
the railway being the glasow city & district into queen st. low level _________________ hey, d'ye think it's ootside yir in?
maybe a bit tenuous , but i was looking through this site earlier, i suppose a lot of folk don't realise why the M8 goes a bit rollercoaster near the mitchell.
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/media/photo/abovethem8/14.shtml
the railway being the glasow city & district into queen st. low level
Loved the photo a few previous where the author states the footbridge never reached ground level ... ERM AYE IT DOES...
I got photos standing on top of the bloody thing lol...
The west end i think is now encased in a sharp jaggy fence...
I am sure Roving Reporter has been up there too .... STU ? _________________ MY FLICKR
A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
I'm sure I was up when I was a kid and it was open but havent been up there with a camera yet.... not as if I havent tried _________________ Now coming at you with 95% more significance, 1% less salt and virtually fat free!
great stuff - just shows that even where there are still active rail lines, there's clues to how many more used to be there - i take it at least a couple more of those arches had lines under them _________________ hey, d'ye think it's ootside yir in?
great stuff - just shows that even where there are still active rail lines, there's clues to how many more used to be there - i take it at least a couple more of those arches had lines under them
Nice thought RM but I think the additional arches are just spans for the bridge due to the width of the cutting which is very common in bridge construction of that era.
great stuff - just shows that even where there are still active rail lines, there's clues to how many more used to be there - i take it at least a couple more of those arches had lines under them
Nice thought RM but I think the additional arches are just spans for the bridge due to the width of the cutting which is very common in bridge construction of that era.
Actually, rotten milk is correct - the arch on the right had tracks under it - this
was the location of the chord that linked the Buchanan Street mainline to the
Possil to Rutherglen freight line.
James H _________________ The blinding obvious is what you showed to me.....
i think i thought that as there seems to be a lot of trees on the same level as the running lines, which often happens when a line is lifted
actually, i wonder if there are 'concealed' arches adjoining the end of that car park, just as the bridge road rejoins the new road, the 'switchback' line ran down to rutherglen from here - following the curved edge of the developed bit (on the route of the M80)
the bartholomew 1912 map also shows 2 lines side-by-side at the bridge (whether they were single/double lines i don't know, but they're shown as separate)
EDIT : thanks for that fjord, you were posting while i was fannying about with live!maps
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, but i was looking through this site earlier, i suppose a lot of folk don't realise why the M8 goes a bit rollercoaster near the mitchell.
