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You can follow the route the railroad branch traveled -- running through the terraced area where the houses are now (in distant center) to the level of the roadway (right, foreground.)
This line was built circa 1900 as the Price Hill Railroad, but soon afterwards became part of the White Oak Railway. The line was  originally built to serve the coal mine at Prince Hill, but the North Kilsyth and the Fayral mines also were in operation along the line in the 1920's-1930's.

You can follow the route the railroad branch traveled -- running through the terraced area where the houses are now (in distant center) to the level of the roadway (right, foreground.)


This line was built circa 1900 as the Price Hill Railroad, but soon afterwards became part of the White Oak Railway. The line was originally built to serve the coal mine at Prince Hill, but the North Kilsyth and the Fayral mines also were in operation along the line in the 1920's-1930's.


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