26-650: (Redirected from Allandale Station ) Allandale station can refer to: Allandale railway station (Scotland) , a proposed railway station that was left unbuilt in Allandale, Falkirk, Scotland Allandale Waterfront GO Station , an in-service commuter railway station in Barrie, Ontario, Canada Allandale railway station, New South Wales , a disused railway station in New South Wales, Australia Allandale Station, South Australia ,
52-467: A further 179 injured. A memorial was installed in the memorial garden in the village on 30 August 2008. The Castlecary Rail Crash of 9 September 1968 is also commemorated there. There is little beyond housing in the village today. The Castlecary House Hotel is a well-known business in the village and was up for sale in 2016. The hotel is in a central location, sited to the west of the M80 motorway and south of
78-513: A locality Allandale Station (pastoral lease) , a cattle station in South Australia See also [ edit ] Allandale (disambiguation) Allendale railway station , England Allendale station (NJ Transit) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about railway and public transport stations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
104-531: A modern motorway . Castlecary is close to the town of Cumbernauld but like Dullatur and Luggiebank is not officially part of the town. Around 1725, the barony of Castlecary, with a population of just seventeen families, was disjoined from the parish of Falkirk , and annexed to Cumbernauld quoad sacra . Castlecary is also near Allandale which, though in the Falkirk council area , was built for Castlecary fireclay workers. Castlecary, like many other settlements in
130-458: A pair of small shoes suggesting there were children onsite. The National Scottish Museums also list a cornu mouthpiece , a glass cup fragment, an iron claw hammer, a wooden spatula and two sculpted stones. One stone identifies the 'sixth cohort, the century of Antonius Aratus'. In the 21st century a treasure trove of a lion's head was discovered at Castlecary. The site in relation to the Red Burn ,
156-453: A town which lost its train service in January 1968. This is an idea put forward by Network Rail to improve freight access and is supported by Falkirk Council , who are currently undertaking a feasibility study into the project's potential. This Scotland rail transport related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to Glasgow , Scotland ,
182-473: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Castlecary Castlecary ( / ˌ k ɑː s ə l ˈ k ɛər i / ) is a small historic village in North Lanarkshire , Scotland , directly adjacent to the border with Falkirk . It has long been associated with infrastructure , being adjacent to a bridged river , a Roman fort and roads, a nationwide canal , a Victorian railway viaduct, and
208-507: Is a suburban railway line linking Glasgow to Falkirk via Cumbernauld in Scotland . Since May 2014, the newly electrified track between Springburn and Cumbernauld has become an extension of the North Clyde network. All passenger services on this Line are operated by ScotRail . Following electrification between June 2013 and May 2014, Cumbernauld services became an extension of
234-636: The Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme , a series of Diversionary Route electrification projects have been outlined for completion in 2018. These plans include full electrification between Cumbernauld and Falkirk Grahamston. With the cancellation of the Garngad Chord in November 2011, the potential to remove the timely reversing procedure at Springburn is still an option. There are also tentative plans to extend passenger services from Falkirk to Grangemouth ,
260-559: The Forth and Clyde Canal , the road, and the former railway station can be seen on older maps. The canal crosses the Red Burn on an aqueduct, close to the Bonny Water just outside Castlecary. Just west of Castlecary, at Garnhall, two Roman temporary camps were discovered. A round enclosure and a possible watchtower were also found although these are not visible today. At Tollpark, remains one of
286-568: The North Clyde Line 's Springburn Branch. Services from Cumbernauld arrived at Glasgow Queen Street Low Level platforms, freeing up capacity in the High Level station. Due to cancellation of the Garngad Chord, trains must reverse from Springburn . All services now use Class 385 EMUs instead of diesel units. Allandale railway station ( 55°59′6″N 3°55′47″W / 55.98500°N 3.92972°W / 55.98500; -3.92972 )
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#1732894569707312-651: The "Castlecary Arches", was built for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, which opened in 1842. Before the A80 opened, the road went under a single arch. Along with the adjacent Forth and Clyde Canal and the Bonny Water , the viaduct acts as a physical representation of Castlecary's status as an isogloss , as it is around here that there is a distinct change from the West Central Scots accent spoken around Cumbernauld (many of
338-520: The 2nd edition of his book The Roman Wall in Scotland . It's a small altar; Macdonald says it's only about 20 by 10 inches. He regarded it as notable for showing that Italians and Britons were comrades in the Roman army. An altar to an unknown goddess was found while digging the canal. It is hard to read anything more than four letters. A few coins and the remains of a Roman tuba were also recovered and well as
364-509: The 2nd largest fireclay brick manufacturer in the world. Some early footage of the 1932 Castlecary gala day survives shot by the Stein family. Other 19th century employers include a quarry and a sawmill. One suggested use of the former brickworks has been the construction of a new "park and ride" railway station, which was to be called Allandale . It had been previously suggested that the station be called Castlecary, but representations were made to
390-545: The area, is steeped in the Roman history of Scotland. The route of the Antonine Wall passes through the village. Around 80 AD, a Roman camp was built at Castlecary. It may have been during governor Agricola 's fourth campaign season. Most Roman forts along the wall held garrisons of around 500 men. Larger forts like Castlecary and Birrens had a nominal cohort of 1000 men but probably sheltered women and children as well although
416-522: The canal. The fort and the castle are east of the M80 which bisects the village from much of its history. A major employer in the area is CMS Windows which is based in Castlecary and employs over 250 people nationally. Castlecary commonly lends its name to a viaduct which crosses the M80, although its official name is the "Castlecary, Red Burn, Railway Viaduct" or Red Burn Viaduct. The landmark, known by many as
442-505: The late 19th century by Alexander Weir, which closed in 1968; and Stein's Castlecary Works established by John G Stein which continued until the 1980s. The two companies were over the road from each other. Stein's brickworks in Allandale opened in 1899 and provided local employment for many years. The site is now derelict and awaiting redevelopment. Allandale village was built for the Castlecary brickworkers and John Stein's business grew to be
468-425: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allandale_station&oldid=1163354741 " Category : Station disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Allandale railway station (Scotland) The Cumbernauld Line
494-646: The longest continuous stretches of the Wall. It is found between the forts at Castlecary and Westerwood . A kissing gate behind the hotel provides access to this section of the wall. Some antiquarians posited that Castlecary was Ptolemy's Coria Damniorum although such assertions lack evidence. The Damnonii or Damnii themselves are only mentioned by Ptolemy. There were two fireclay brickworks in Castlecary: Castlecary Fireclay Company Limited, known as Weir's Castlecary, established during
520-558: The names of Roman military units. A sandstone statuette of Fortuna, the Roman god of luck, fate, fortune (and even, in Fortuna Redux , safe-return) was found at Castlecary in 1771. Fortuna is depicted on around 1000 different Roman coins and looking at them leaves little doubt that it's Fortuna and not Mercury that is depicted. A Roman altar to Mercury by the Sixth Legion was found at Castlecary. George MacDonald calls it no. 36 in
546-522: The scheme's sponsors not to call it this given the existence of a Castle Cary station in Somerset and the potential for confusion between the two. Previously a Castlecary railway station existed but it closed in 1967. It was the site of a major accident, the Castlecary Rail Disaster on 10 December 1937, when two trains collided with one another. The accident cost the lives of 35 people, with
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#1732894569707572-537: The site was not handled with much respect to archaeology as even gunpowder was used at the fort to improve land for agriculture. It was, however, excavated sympathetically in 1902. Artefacts, found at Castlecary, such as the altar to the Roman god Fortuna can now be viewed at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. Eleven inscribed stoneworks have been recovered from the Castlecary fort. Nine of these were altars; six bear
598-475: The town's residents having strong links to Glasgow ) to the East Central Scots spoken in nearby Bonnybridge and Denny . Around 15 miles (24 km) to the south-east, Harthill is another location alongside a motorway perceived to denote a shift between dialects as well as local authorities . Castlecary Primary School shut sometime between 1973 and 1976. Extracts from a 2nd world war log book from
624-473: The troops were not allowed to marry. There is likely too to have been large communities of civilians around the site. In 1769, workmen seeking materials for the Forth and Clyde Canal, found 8 apartments along with the remains of an L-shaped, hypocausted , bathhouse in the south-east section of the fort. Inside the walls other objects such as human bones, pottery shards and boars' tusks were discovered. Historically,
650-616: Was a rail station proposed for the line between Cumbernauld and Falkirk near the villages of Allandale and Castlecary . The station was recommended in the Scottish Executive 's "Central Scotland Transport Corridor Studies", published in January, 2003 as Castlecary railway station. However, the scheme's promoters were persuaded to change the name of the station to avoid confusion with an existing Castle Cary railway station in Castle Cary , Somerset . The proposed Allandale station
676-474: Was to have been sited on the former Castlecary brickworks. Services intended for the station included those from Glasgow Queen Street to Falkirk Grahamston ; a new service from the station to Queen Street; and a half-hourly service between Motherwell and Stirling . Plans for the station were abandoned in favour of an alternative park and ride facility at Bannockburn , according to Scottish Parliament written answers for 23 August 2007. Upon completion of
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