Under the Wester Shieldhill Road still exists some traces of the Industry that created Falkirk District. What is now a lovely but [thankfully] rarely used public path which does not really seem to lead anywhere.
The reason that it doesn't really go anywhere, is, of course because it is incomplete, well not incomplete; the path was once part of the bedding of the Callendar Estate's mineral railway, which linked several of the Callendar Estate's collieries with the Callendar Brick Works near the Glen Village.
If you are not looking for the course of a former railway track, you probably will not see it. But there is one thing that really gives the game away [except for the old maps], and that is the bridge where the tracks went under the road.
:)
The reason that it doesn't really go anywhere, is, of course because it is incomplete, well not incomplete; the path was once part of the bedding of the Callendar Estate's mineral railway, which linked several of the Callendar Estate's collieries with the Callendar Brick Works near the Glen Village.
OS Map 1899 [via NLS Maps]
If you are not looking for the course of a former railway track, you probably will not see it. But there is one thing that really gives the game away [except for the old maps], and that is the bridge where the tracks went under the road.
Facing East
Facing West
:)
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