This culveting was needed as the Monkland Canal acted as a feeder for the Glasgow spur of the Forth and Clyde canal, and without it, it would stagnate and dry up.

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Completed in the 1790s, it was one of the first canals in Scotland, it was abandoned for navigation in 1952. It was covered over when the M8 motorway was built in the 1960s, and which partially follows the route of the old canal.

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The point at which the Monkland Canal now disappears into a culvert near Drumpellier Country Park, and then re-appears at the Pinkston junction about six miles away just east of Glasgow City Centre.

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