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The Caledonian Railway (CR) was a major Scottish railway company.It was formed in 1845 with the objective of forming a link between English railways and Glasgow.It progressively extended its network and reached Edinburgh and Aberdeen, with a dense network of branch lines in the area surrounding Glasgow.
A prospectus for the Caledonian Railway, capital £1,500,000, was issued on 12 April 1845. Six weeks were spent in committee in Parliament, and the efforts were crowned with success: An Act for making a Railway from Carlisle to Edinburgh and Glasgow and the North of Scotland, to be called The Caledonian Railway was passed on 31 July 1845. The ...
April 24, 1986 (1960 W. Broad St. No: Demolished: 21 #: Coe Mound: July 18, 1974 (West of High Street [1]: No: Site and its coordinates are restricted 22 #: Truman and Sylvia Bull Coe House
The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (later reorganised to form the Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR), had reached Muirkirk in 1848; [12] [page needed] the town had become a huge centre of the iron industry, dominated by the Baird ironworks, and the Caledonian hoped one day to reach it by building on from Douglas.
The Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway. William Stirling established a textile dyeworks at Cordale, near Renton in the valley of the River Leven, in 1770.Other industrialists in textile finishing established nearby and the area between Balloch and Dumbarton quickly became a centre of the industry.
The railway resumed peacetime operation, but the Government reorganised the railways into four "groups" by the Railways Act 1921; the Caledonian Railway was a constituent of the new London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), and the NBR a constituent of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) from 1923. The Grangemouth Branch Railway ...
The Caledonian Railway subscribed half the money on the basis that it would later have the option of absorbing the company. The Caledonian was concerned by the possibility of the rival North British Railway building a penetrating line into the area, or even taking over the unbuilt St Fillans line, and this motivated their provision of funding ...
The Caledonian Railway station was one of three serving Gretna, the others being: Gretna built by Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway in 1848 (successor station open) Gretna built by the Border Union Railway in 1861, closing in 1915. A short distance to the north on the Caledonian Railway are Quintinshill loops, the site of the rail crash in ...