Date: 04/06/2023

For weekend visitors to Strathclyde Country Park, the calm loch and woodlands that cling to its fringes provide refreshing respite and a place to escape.

But for a dwindling group of pensioners it is a place to reunite at a small stone cairn at the lochs edge, the areas attractions are bittersweet, igniting distant memories of a faded way of life at the long-lost pit village they once called home.

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Hamilton Palace Colliery (Douglas Park) was served by both the Caledonian and the North British via a joint line. This photograph looks south under the former Clydesdale Junction Railway of the Caledonian close to the point where the North British's Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway line from Bothwell to Coatbridge passed overhead. The distant disused bridge took a spur from the GBH&C line to the joint line. Today only the Caledonian's Uddingston to Motherwell line remains open.
Location: Hamilton Palace Junction
Company: Clydesdale Junction Railway
//2000 Ewan Crawford

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