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2. Caledonian Railway - Wikipedia

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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.

3. History of the Caledonian Railway (until 1850) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway - Wikipedia

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   The Caledonian Railway was authorised in 1845; it was to be a main line railway from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Carlisle, making long-distance connections with the merging English railway network. It was capitalised at £1.5 million, a vast amount of money at the time, and the entry to Glasgow was to be made over the coal railways to avoid the ...

5. Caledonian Railway branches in South Lanarkshire - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Caledonian Railway branches in North Lanarkshire - Wikipedia

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   The Caledonian Railway branches in North Lanarkshire built on the Caledonian Railway main line, which opened in 1848. In the following years the considerable increase of iron production and coal extraction in North Lanarkshire led to a progressive expansion of branch lines in the area between the eastern margin of Glasgow and Bellside in the east, and between Coatbridge, Airdrie and Motherwell.

7. Greenock Central railway station - Wikipedia

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   The route took the railway in a tunnel from the station under the town's Well Park (which provides a level area atop a high rocky crag), then in further cuttings and tunnels westwards through the hillside, including the 1.2 miles (1.9 km) long tunnel under Newton Street, until clear of the expensive properties on the coast.

8. Dumbarton Central railway station - Wikipedia

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   History; Original company: Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway & Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway: Pre-grouping: Caledonian Railway & North British Railway: Post-grouping: LMS & LNER: Key dates; 15 July 1850: Opened: Passengers; 2019/20: 0.718 million Interchange 0.103 million: 2020/21: 75,242 Interchange 8,003: 2021/22: 0.310 ...

9. Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway - Wikipedia

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   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.