SAW051757 SCOTLAND (1953). New Stevenston, general view, showing Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd. Clydesdale Steel and Tube Works, Clydesdale Street and St Patrick's Cemetery. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing south-east. This image has been produced from a crop marke

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Old railway tracks at bottom left. News to me. I was born the year this picture was taken and spent much of my childhood playing around those fields and walking in the cemetery (St Patrick's, New Stevenston). I didn't know there had been a railway running there and by 1960 that area was pretty overgrown and a 'bing' was forming, which stands to this day. A bing is where all the waste material from local development - this was part of Stewart & Lloyds steelworks - is deposited. Grass and trees eventually grow and it becomes a playground for wild kids.

Caledonian Railways Holytown Junction signal box. Train is passing over a gated road level crossing worked from this signal box. Very long pedestrian footbridge dates from time there were more tracks here, a branch to Holytown Colliery.

LMS Railway Jerviston Branch (truncated) from Jerviston Junction (Mossend) to Coursington Road Junction (Motherwell) built to serve Colvilles Dalzell Steelworks. Later rebuilt to service BSC Ravenscraig Steelworks (Craigneuk) No3 yard.

New Stevenston Cross

Caledonian Railways Holytown station

Stewarts & Lloyds Clydesdale Tubeworks, Mossend

Milnwood Tubeworks, Clydesdale Road, Mossend