{"id":3506,"date":"2023-12-07T02:29:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T02:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/a-developing-community\/"},"modified":"2023-12-07T02:29:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T02:29:48","slug":"a-developing-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/a-developing-community\/","title":{"rendered":"A Developing Community"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0… And What Has Changed?<\/span><\/p>\n\n The refinery dominates the town …<\/p>\n … and not the best news fo the wider Scottish economy.<\/p><\/div>\n Above we see First’s route 2 continuing to Bo’ness and routes 3 and 4, a both ways round lollipop. Things look much the same under McGills ownership.<\/p>\n Way back in 1987, Alexander Midland ran an 86 with 286 occasional oddments.<\/p>\n The terminus was a few yards along Burnbank Road …<\/p>\n … the end of which is still served by lollipops 3 and 4.<\/p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n Here is the Old Town in the 1950s.<\/p>\n And below is the old town today c\/o Google Earth!<\/p>\n The small rectangle is the “Old Dock” as shown on the above old map!<\/p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n … but latterly reduced to every hour.<\/p>\n McGills now run every 30 minutes.<\/p>\n Not that longs ago, the 3 and 4 ran every 20 minutes each way round.<\/p>\n Under First’s positive management this was reduced to every 30.<\/p>\n McGills have maintained the 30 minute headway on both e.g. 3 (below).<\/p>\n Of\u00a0 course, once upon a time Grangemouth had a railway service. Only the track to the oil refinery remains.<\/p>\n But the station was located roughly as above, but in its early life with a level crossing before oil arrived on the scene and new over bridges were builf.<\/p>\n The newer old town centre (often known as the New Town) is nearby. Here you will find bus stops for 2, 3 and 4 …<\/p>\n … with the more modern town centre appurtenances off to the south.<\/p>\n Here, in a rather tired looking precinct …<\/p>\n <\/p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n Despite the hardship, the place was full of these foreigners who “bred like rabbits” according to the Egyptian authorities.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n
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