Old Photograph Railway Station Torrance Scotland

Old photograph of the Railway Station in Torrance, Scotland. Torrance is a Scottish town in East Dunbartonshire eight miles North of Glasgow city centre. Although weavers were among the earliest residents of the village, limestone, coal and ironstone extraction also began to emerge as a local industry. The Kelvin Valley Railway was an independent railway designed to connect Kilsyth, an important mining town in central Scotland, with the railway network. It connected Kilsyth to Kirkintilloch and thence over other railways to the ironworks of Coatbridge, and to Maryhill, connecting onwards to the Queen's Dock at Stobcross. The line opened in 1878. The hoped-for passenger traffic never developed, but the coal traffic from Kilsyth to the River Clyde was buoyant for many years. Motor bus competition had greatly reduced the passenger use of the line, and it closed to passengers in 1951. The mineral traffic too was declining and in 1966 the line closed completely. None of it is active for rail purposes now.



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