Date: 28/10/2022

An angry councillor has hit out at plans to spend more than £5 million of taxpayers' cash on part of the Exxon site redevelopment near Dumbarton.

Jim Bollan, from the West Dunbartonshire Community Party, said he believed the authority's Labour administration was treating the council's finances as a 'bottomless pit'.

[A bridge formerly carried the line over the closed portion of the GD&HR at Dumbuck. -RS]

Councillor Bollan said plans to spend £5.74m on the design and construction of a new underpass giving access to the western end of the Exxon site near Milton, beneath the Glasgow-Dumbarton railway line, were 'astonishing' and 'reckless'.

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Caledonian Railway Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire line with NBR Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh bridge over, looking NW.
Location: Dumbuck
Company: Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway
13/04/2007 Alistair MacKenzie

A Rutherglen - Balloch train on the L&D route crossing the NB line at Dumbuck on 12 April 1958. The locomotive is Dawsholm shed's Stanier 3P 2-6-2T no 40186, recently returned from St Margarets following an extended 'loan' see image [[37195]].
Location: Dumbuck
Company: Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway
12/04/1958 G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow

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