Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Carstairs and Dolphinton Railway

Carstairs and Dolphinton Railway, a railway of E Lanarkshire, from the Edinburgh fork of the Caledonian railway in the vicinity of Carstairs Junction, 11 miles eastward to a junction with the Leadburn, Linton, and Dolphinton railway at Dolphinton. Formed by the Caledonian company, on a capital of £105.000 in shares and £35,000 in loans, it was opened in 1867.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Lanarkshire ScoCnty       Midlothian ScoCnty

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