2005
NS8135 : Disused junction
taken 18 years ago, near to Bellfield, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Disused junction
For a little under three years, from October 1965 till August 1968, this lonely spot on the moors north of Coalburn was a railway terminus. Passenger trains along the left-hand track, which belonged to British Railways, ceased in that first month (freight trains having ended the previous year) but coal trains continued to run round the curve to the right to Auchlochan Colliery until that closed in 1968. The wooden gate on the right originally closed across the branch, which was National Coal Board property. The more northerly houses of Coalburn can be seen in right distance.
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