The Monorail

Britain From Above is a wonderful website of aerial photographs going back as much as 100 years.  In a 1930 photo, the famous monorail was captured:


Here is my attempt to reproduce the view using Google Earth:


We're above Milngavie Road looking south-east.  Macdonald's and Pure Gym are in the bottom right, Home Bargains and Aldi are bottom left and the new defunct Arnold Clarks still has cars on display.  The white building that has survived from the 1930 photo is Kelvin Timber and the monorail would have run on the area of today's timber yard.

Here is some more detail from the 1930 photo.  The main building:


The platform and carriage:


And not forgetting the car heading to Milngavie:


Note also the existing railway line under the monorail:


This ran to a junction with the Hillfoot to Milngavie line:


I believe the sidings were built to service the dyeworks at Burnbrae (now Macdonald's).

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