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The line had been constructed as a single line; it was doubled on 24 April 1900. Hillfoot station was opened at the same time. [7]The North British Railway became a constituent of the new London and North Eastern Railway in 1923, following the Railways Act 1921; in 1948 the railways were nationalised and the line was under the control of British Railways, Scottish Region.
By 1911, the Encyclopædia Britannica described New Kilpatrick as a town in Dumbartonshire, 5.5 miles (9 km) N.W. of Glasgow, with a railway station on the Milngavie branch line. [18] Key public buildings are listed as the Schaw Convalescent Home, Buchanan Retreat (now Boclair House), house of refuge for girls, a library, and St Peter's College ...
Milngavie, originally in Stirlingshire, was in an area that became an exclave of Dunbartonshire on the orders of King David II (1324–1371). In 1875, whilst remaining part of Dunbartonshire, it became a police burgh under the jurisdiction of the Stirlingshire constabulary and retained burgh status for 100 years until 1975 when it was absorbed into the newly created Strathclyde Region.
Upload another image St Pauls Church Milngavie 55°56′32″N 4°18′39″W / 55.942128°N 4.31075°W / 55.942128; -4.31075 (St Pauls Church Milngavie) Category C(S) 37848 Upload another image See more images 133 Mugdock Road, Woodlands Including Ancillary Buildings, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers And Gates 55°56′52″N 4°19′06″W / 55.947717°N 4.318467°W / 55 ...
The council was based at Boclair, 100 Milngavie Road, Bearsden. [5] The building had been built in 1890–1891 as a care home called the Buchanan Retreat. [6] It had then been bought by the old Bearsden Town Council in 1960 and converted into that council's headquarters, being formally opened by Princess Margaret on 31 May 1962.
Milngavie station has a ticket office and ticket machines, an accessible toilet, help points, a small cafe, a payphone, bike racks and benches. There is no taxi rank, but there is a car park. A pedestrian underpass links the station to the town centre, which is also pedestrianised, and the southern end of the West Highland Way long-distance ...
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The Indian Classical languages, or the Śāstrīya Bhāṣā or the Dhrupadī Bhāṣā (Assamese, Bengali) or the Abhijāta Bhāṣā (Marathi) or the Cemmoḻi (Tamil), is an umbrella term for the languages of India having high antiquity, and valuable, original and distinct literary heritage. [1]