Opening
The first lines opened on 8 May 1828, from Kipps (where there was an end-on junction with the M&KR) to a colliery at Ballochney; there were branches to Airdrie, Hallcraig Street, to Clarkston Wester Monklands, and to Thrushbush Quarry. The engineer was Thomas Grainger).
The line was about six miles in extent, and it included two self-acting inclined planes to gain altitude in reaching the high ground where the mines were located.
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“They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?””
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 24:32.
The Emmaus story.
“And then ... he flung open the door of my compartment, and ushered in “Ma young and lovely lady!” I muttered to myself with some bitterness. “And this is, of course, the opening scene of Vol. I. She is the Heroine. And I am one of those subordinate characters that only turn up when needed for the development of her destiny, and whose final appearance is outside the church, waiting to greet the Happy Pair!””
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