 Houses built near the station developed into the modern hamlet of Tillietudlem.In the Autumn of 1799 the poet Walter Scott made a brief visit to Craignethan Castle, and was enraptured by the scene.When Scott wrote his novel "Old Mortality", published in 1816, he set it in South Lanarkshire during the late 17th century conflicts between Royalists and Covenanters, with a mixture of fictional and historical names of people and places.