Hi all. Photographs and more and full information can be found in the photograph captions by clicking on the links below.
Airdrie - Bathgate (A - B) Project Photographs From Yesterday (BIG UPDATE)
http://jonathanmcgurk.fotopic.net/c1619388.html - This link will take you to the start of the gallery which I created last year with photoraphs from November 2008 onwards (to yesterday's photographs) to do with the project.
http://jonathanmcgurk.fotopic.net/c1619388_73.html - This link will take you to the start of yesterday's photographs if you scroll down to the bottom four photographs and continue to the next page and onwards. Updates from yesterday include a visit to the construction site of what will be Bathgate L.M.D. for which work is cracking on quite fast and should be complete by October this year. Updates also include photographs of the current station carpark at Bathgate which closes on Monday 11th May for construction work to take place in the area to do with the project and the area of what will be the new Bathgate station and 400 space carpark. From Bathgate I got a bus to Blackridge where I then walked 6 miles (I think, possibly more) to Caldercruix. During my walk I took photographs of the following:
*Propsed Blackridge station (If the proposal to built a station here is backed by the Scottish Government in the future years)
* Evidence of the orginal trackbed and old station which served the original Airdrie - Bathgate railway line in the bygone years - Forrestfield and Westcraigs station included
* Evidence to show the cutting of all trees along the Bathgate - Drumgelloch area which finished in March by Q.T.S. who carried out the tree cutting work
Full cpations have been given to most of the images and I will be adding a complete set of captions to older images also over the weekend, especially tonight.
I thoroughly enjoyed wlaking the route even if I walked thorugh all kinds of weather including hail, heavy wind and rain and when it decided to come out the sunny weather