It Lies North West of Glasgow...
... and tends to be spelled inaccurately on maps!
If you continue further, you come to places like Stirling (north) and Falkirk (east).
There was a Roman settlement between Croy and Castlecary ...
... in the form of a fort called Westerwood on the Antonine Wall; perhaps a lesser known effort to keep the Roman Empire safe from the marauding and violent Scots.
A village later developed initially being a base for the cottage industry of the wool trade.
Life revolved round the Kirk ...
.... and the school.
Motor cars were rare on the main street!
There was once a castle ...
... but there is not much of it left.
The village developed at or near the junction of what became the A80 and the A73 and was a candidate for an early by-pass!
Some if the original housing still stands ...
... but you have to know where to look.
Then in 1955 it was decided to build a Glasgow overspill town at Cumbernauld! Development continued until the 1990s and look at it now.
"Now" is around 1990 for the picture above.
When fbb was a-courting his future Mrs, he requested a trip from her Milgavie home to Cumbernauld. Mrs fbb-to-be was uncertain of her future hubby's sanity for actually wanting to go there!
Back then, in the 1970s, there were still plenty of buses like this ...
... but the lovers by train, changing from blue electric to mucky green diesel at Springburn.
Such were the joys of Glasgow suburban travel before the mass extension of the electric!
Sadly, fbb's detailed knowledge of the history of buses to Cumbernauld is, again sadly, far from detailed.
Alexander Midland (as above) begat Midland Scottish ...
... which, in turn, begat Kelvin Central in Glasgow
First bought both Glasgow companies and Cumbernauld was provided with new coach-type vehicles to enhance routes to the north east from the city. 
The X5 ran to Kilsyth (usual caveat re fbb's memory!) with X3 ...
... and X4 doing the Cumbernauld run. You would call these 'X' services Glasgow outer suburban routes and we still have an X3 today.
But before we look at the "locals" we need to see what else links Cumbernauld with Glasgow, having got there from further afield.
You will not be surprised to know that it is all on line.
fbb should also note, in passing, that Stagecoach also runs buses from Glasgow to Cumbernauld ...
... remembering Stagecoach's deregulatory onslaught on the city with MagicBus!
Later, when Magicbus had become a national low cost low fare "spoiler", there was an X25. But did it run to Cumbernauld?
Next Cummer-Nodd blog : Thurs 29 Jan
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