Sites and Monument Record: Causewayend Basin (SMR 717)
Description
Canal basin on the Union Canal at Causewayend, Muiravonside. 150ft square with railway tracks round the sides with turning points at the corners to allow the railway wagons to be rotated through 90 degrees. The base of a crane can still be seen.
Commenced 1836 and opened in 1840 as the terminus of the Slamannan Railway and acted as a transhipment facility for material continuing to Edinburgh by canal.
John MacNeill, London, engineer and Michael Foc, contractor. Thomas Mitchell resident engineer.
Object detail
Coal waggons from the railway were unloaded into
barges which used the Union Canal to take the coal on
to Edinburgh.
The opening of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Railway in 1842 reduced the trade here and the following year the Slamannan Railway was given a direct connection to the new line.
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