CHILDREN are continually warned about the dangers of playing near railway lines, but this little girl was not in any danger when this photograph was taken back in April 1963.
She was playing at Kirklee Station, Glasgow, and the line had been closed to passenger trains in May 1939. At the time of this picture there was only one coal train a day going through the line and that was at 9.50am when this girl was in school.
The station building in the background had become a private home. It had been converted into three houses for railwaymen and their families many years previously. One of the occupants in 1963 was Robert Robertson, who had recently retired from the Scottish region’s offices in Buchanan Street.
At that time the railways were under review by Richard Beeching and within a few years many lines and stations had closed completely.
The line at Kirklee was closed on October 5, 1964 and the station buildings were demolished in 1971, having fallen into disrepair.
Most of the station site is now occupied by blocks of flats.
1976
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