Fascinating map Alycidon and worth of a comment for my first post I wonder if you could tell me roughly where the track branched off to go to the Aitkenhead Colliery? Thats my neck of the woods, I heard there was an old mine up where the ASDA is on Prospecthill Road but I cant work out how the track would have got there from the Cathcart Circle.
Keep up the good work!
Hi CDL - the exact position of the junction was exactly where Kings Park Station is now, the line curved sharply to the north and followed exactly the line of Aitkenhead road, the formation being to the immediate west of the road. The mine was at the side of the road opposite Hampden Park. Go to the old-maps.co.uk website, type in Cathcart in the search engine and find the 1915 1:10,560 map, you will see the junction on this, you can then switch to the 1938 map and see how the housing development obliterated any trace of the formation.
This site has been relaxed recently, at one time you could only pan and zoom on the oldest map (1864), but I notice now that you can pan and zoom on any 1:10,560 map which is a great help, this feature is still unfortunately locked on the 1:2,500 maps which is a real bummer.
I can vaguely remember using those a few times in the late 60's/early 70's.
Brought you out at a ticket office at the Hope St.entrance,across from Denholms. The ticket office was situated where the bottom of the escalator is at platforms 12 & 13.
The passageway from the platforms was in the corner where the escalators to the low level platforms are. _________________ See me? I'm daft, but it not ma fault!
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I wonder if you could tell me roughly where the track branched off to go to the Aitkenhead Colliery? Thats my neck of the woods, I heard there was an old mine up where the ASDA is on Prospecthill Road but I cant work out how the track would have got there from the Cathcart Circle.
