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Maryhill Railway Station
, symbol_location = gb , symbol = rail , image = Maryhill railway station. View west from the overbridge.JPG , caption = Maryhill station, looking west , borough = Maryhill, Glasgow , country = Scotland , coordinates = , grid_name = Grid reference , grid_position = , manager = ScotRail , platforms = 2 , code = MYH , transit_authority = SPT , original = Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway , pregroup = North British Railway , postgroup = , years = 28 May 1858 , events = Opened as ''Maryhill'' , years1 = 2 October 1951 , events1 = Closed to passengers , years2 = 19 December 1960 , events2 = Reopened as ''Maryhill Park'' , years3 = 2 October 1961 , events3 = Closed to regular passenger tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryhill
Maryhill ( gd, Cnoc MÃ iri) is an area of the City of Glasgow in Scotland. Maryhill is a former burgh. Maryhill stretches over along Maryhill Road. The far north west of the area is served by Maryhill railway station. History Hew Hill, the Laird, or Lord, of Gairbraid, had no male heir and so he left his estate to his daughter, Mary Hill (1730-1809). She married Robert Graham of Dawsholm in 1763, but they had no income from trade or commerce and had to make what they could from the estate. They founded coalmines on the estate but they proved to be wet and unprofitable. On 8 March 1768 Parliament approved the cutting of the Forth and Clyde Canal through their estate, which provided some much-needed money. The canal reached the estate in 1775, but the canal company had run out of money and work stopped for eight years. The Government granted funds from forfeited Jacobite estates to start it again and the crossing of the River Kelvin became the focus for massive const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
