The Monklands and Kirkintilloch Railway and Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway

[@MG-bs5mr]

Interesting video, I live locally and have recently "discovered" the path. A few points 24:00 the road goes over a bridge and the railway / path runs through a short tunnel. 24:30 you can continue along the old railway after crossing Avenuehead road, it continues, skirting past the large pit on a solid, if somewhat muddy, path. The railway path emerges into the old clay works where the road can be reached I just thought it would be nice to help fill in some information as it's really quite a nice walk.

[@RossMaynardProcessExcellence]

Thank you very much M G

[@NiallWardrop]

13:44 is the former Summerlee ironworks, now an open air museum and there is a small section of the canal branch in water as part of the museum.

[@NiallWardrop]

18:30 the Railscot page shown is out of date, the Gunnie section is now disconnected and abandoned although some track remains mostly buried under rubbish and rubble.

[@NiallWardrop]

22:47 the branch connects with the main line again facing east.

[@NiallWardrop]

24:05 the trackbed and path passes under the road in what is known as the "tunnel bridge".

[@RossMaynardProcessExcellence]

@@NiallWardrop Thank you for the comments. Yes, Summerlee is very good.

[@brianmcaleer3958]

Enjoyed your video but would like to point something out. The Monkland Canal terminated at the junction of Castle Street & Alexandra Parade. The section of canal between there & Port Dundas - called the "Cut of Junction" - was neither part of the Forth & Clyde or Monkland Canals. The Glasgow Branch of the Forth & Clyde ran from Stockingfield Junction to Port Dundas. Hope you don't mind my saying !

[@RossMaynardProcessExcellence]

Thank you, I didn't know that. I thought the Monklands Canal had always run from the bleach works.

[@brianmcaleer3958]

@RossMaynardProcessExcellence the Cut of Junction was built after the other two canals. One of the reasons was to use the Monkland as a water supply for the Forth & Clyde - which it still does via the pipes under the M8 (which was originally called the Monkland Motorway).

[@MG-bs5mr]

39:30 sla-man-an 👍

[@Jock609]

Please, please, please pronounce Kirkintilloch correctly. It is Kirkintilloch, NOT Kirkintillock! Having said that, a very interesting video