Old Photographs Railway Station Coalburn Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Coalburn, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Coalburn is a small isolated village that lies on the Coal Burn, a tributary of the Douglas Water, 3 miles south of Lesmahagow. Coalburn developed from the 1850s as a railway settlement associated with local coal mines. The station closed to railway passengers in 1965 and the last colliery and mineral traffic on the railway was in 1968. History Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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