{"id":130,"date":"2008-11-03T21:29:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T21:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2013-11-17T22:35:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T22:35:13","slug":"the-molendinar-burn-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/miscellaneous\/the-molendinar-burn-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Molendinar Burn Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my previous explore<\/a> of Glasgow’s Molendinar Burn, I had to go back to cover the downstream section, which runs from Duke Street down to the Clyde.<\/p>\n

The downstream tunnel entrance:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

First there’s beautiful stone, quite high:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Then stone walls and a brick roof:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Then circular brick, with some neat side drains:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Then lower and oval, with some steeper sections:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

It then opens up a bit:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Before getting quite a bit lower:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Going under a large pipe:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

A couple more side drains – theses don’t drain into the burn, they end up somewhere underneath it:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Then a whole series of beautiful brick arches:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Then it gets very, very low and goes under the underground rail line from Central Station – I was half way through when a train went overhead:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Then a long, long backbreaking stretch:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Then a junction, where the Camlachie Burn joins the Molendinar – it follows the route of Greendyke Street:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Carrying on a bit further, the burn drops into a smaller pipe, and the way is impassable – this must be almost at the Clyde:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Going back upstream to where the Camlachie joins, there’s a wall and pillar:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Going up Greendyke this time, the way is a lot more pleasant than the burn – much higher:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Some nice changes of construction:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

A bit of modern concrete and brick:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Back to brick, and some nice reassuring reinforcement:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Some more beautiful side drains:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Then good old steel pipe, the same as upstream in the previous adventure:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

A newer, more open section:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

And at this point, I stopped to turn back, as it was getting late:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

Stopping only to photograph some subterranean mushrooms:<\/p>\n

\"Molendinar<\/a><\/p>\n

At a guess, I travelled about a mile and a half under Glasgow – and back again, of course! The Camlachie was still perfectly accessible when I abandoned my stroll, so who knows how far that goes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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