Lenzie Peat Railway

The bogs of the moss were exploited for peat, and the site was served by a 2 ft (610 mm) railway which took the cut peat to a storage and dispatch area (peat packing shed on the map) adjacent to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway (E&G).

[2] The Lister locomotive 29890[3] is now owned by the West Lancashire Light Railway.

[5] The cut peat was transported in wooden slatted wagons to the peat packing shed, and would be loaded onto trains at the sidings next to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway just west of Lenzie station, and then onwards transported (see map).

The brick foundations of the peat packing shed are still evident today.

The following information appears on the East Dunbartonshire Council information board[6] at the site of the peat packing shed brick foundations: