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Kilsyth (Old)

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Kilsyth [1st] (1878-1888)
Kilsyth (Old) (1888-1951)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Description

The first station in Kilsyth was a single platform terminus to the west of the town. There was a loop, with the platform on the north side, and a goods yard to the north, all approached from the west where Kilsyth Shed was located.

When the line was extended east by the Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway this started from west of the terminus leaving it on a short branch. The new line ascended onto an embankment to pass through this part of the town, this embankment being to the south of the station. Kilsyth (New), a through station, was to the east.

The original station was retained and trains from Glasgow Queen Street High Level continued to call. It survived the second station.

There was a connection to Bairds of Gartshore's Railway to the south of the embankment and terminus.

The site is now a swimming baths having been vacant and used as a park until the late 1980s.

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map

Nearby stations Kilsyth (New) Colzium Twechar Croy Dullator Greenfaulds Milton of Campsie Cumbernauld Banknock Kirkintilloch [2nd] Castlecary Back O Loch Halt Bridgend [M and K] Kirkintilloch Basin Woodley	Haugh Colliery No 1 Kilsyth Gas Works Kilsyth Junction Kilsyth Shed Haugh Coke Works Coke Works and Chemical Works Neilston Coke Works Barrwood Colliery Pit No 2 Barrwood Quarry Coal Pit Auchinvole Sand Quarry Neilston Colliery Pit No 3 Auchinstarry Quarry Beltmoss Quarry Barrwood Colliery Pit No 1
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1882	Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway Line authorised. Running powers to Kilsyth (Old).
02/04/1951	Kelvin Valley Railway Kilsyth (Old) (Kelvin Valley East Junction) to Maryhill (Maryhill East Junction) closed to passengers. Maryhill Park Junction [1st] to Knightswood South Junction closed to regular passenger trains.
04/08/1951	Kelvin Valley Railway Closed to passengers from Kelvin Valley West Junction to Kilsyth (Old).
15/05/1958	Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Blane Valley Railway Campsie Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) Stevenson Locomotive Society Railtour travels from Glasgow to Aberfoyle. (Also visiting Kilsyth (Old)). [189]
04/05/1964	Kelvin Valley Railway Kilsyth (Old) to Twechar (excluded) closed to freight.