Old Photograph Railway Station Busby Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Busby located in East Renfrewshire near Glasgow, Scotland. The station was opened by the Busby Railway on 1 January 1866. Until 1780 Busby village consisted of a few cottages along a track leading from Carmunnock to Mearns. Big change started after 1780 with the founding of Busby's first Cotton Mill. This was at Newmill, on Cartsbridge lands on the opposite side of the River Cart. Busby and Newmill each had several earlier mills. Busby itself had Busby Meal Mill at the end of Field Road, and Busby Waulk Mill in the Glen. Newmill also had two mills, situated together at the waterfall. The first was another early Meal Mill and the second a more recent Lint Mill. The cotton mill built in 1780 was on a completely different scale to the old rural mills. It attracted many families to settle in the area, and the centre of Busby swung from the old declining fermtoun on the Lanarkshire side of the River Cart, to Newmill on the Renfrewshire side.



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