Dalmuir Riverside
Location type
StationNames and dates
Dalmuir [CR] (1896-1952)Dalmuir Riverside (1952-1964)
Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Station code: National RailOpened on the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway.
Description
This was a spacious four platform station, two being terminal platforms on the north side and the main route being served by an island platform. Access was by footbridge from Auld Street.
At the east end of the station, on the north side, was the goods yard which was approached from the east. Goods lines on the south side of the station served works. To the south was the Dalmuir Naval Construction Yard and, later, Turners Asbestos Cement Works. A line dropping down from the east end of the station reached a yard beyond which the Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Works could be approached from its west. The goods lines also ran west to reach Clyde Trust Siding Signal Box.
There was a signal box on the south side of the line opposite the goods yard. It opened with the station.
The sidings to the south became used by Arnott and Young [Dalmuir] for scrap wagons. The signal box closed in 1966 and the line was singled. The north side remained in use as a coal yard.
The line, in use from a new 1973 connection from Clydebank Central Junction through to Chivas Bros Siding closed officially in 1993. The site of the station has now been cleared and partly built over, although the road overbridge to the west remains.
Tags
Station terminus
| Nearby stations Dalmuir [1st] Dalmuir Singer Kilbowie Singer Workers Platforms Kilbowie [1st] Clydebank Clydebank East Clydebank Riverside Old Kilpatrick Kilpatrick Drumry Yoker Yoker Ferry Renfrew Wharf | Dalmuir Shipyard Dalmuir Swing Bridge Dalmuir West [Tram] Turners Asbestos Cement Works Dalmuir Iron Works Singer Timber Yard Dalmuir Dredger Works Dalmuir No 25 Tunnel ROF Dalmuir Dalmuir No 23 Tunnels Dalmuir Park Junction Lidgerwood Siding Newshot Island Royal Naval Stores Depot Dalmuir Tourist/other Clyde Trust Siding Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 05/10/1964 | Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Possil North to Partick West and Partick West to Dunglass Junction closed to passengers. Possil North, Maryhill Central closed and Partick West, Whiteinch Riverside, Scotstoun East, Scotstoun West, Clydebank Riverside, Kilbowie Road, Dalmuir Riverside, Old Kilpatrick closed. |
| 11/10/1965 | Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway The line ceases to be a through route, Dunglass Junction (excluded) to Old Kilpatrick (excluded) closed. Bowling Swing Bridge, Old Kilpatrick signal boxes closed. The line east from Old Kilpatrick to Dalmuir Riverside remains open as yard working. The line was singled, with the former eastbound line lifted. |
| 18/12/1966 | Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Dalmuir Riverside (named Dalmuir), Kilbowie, Yoker, Partick West Junction signal boxes closed. The line from Partick West Junction to Balornock Junction had closed in February. Line singled, the former eastbound line was lifted. (East of Partick Central on the former GCR had closed in 1964). |
| / /1976 | Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Connection made from Clydebank Central Junction to a little east of Dalmuir Riverside for west running. [Connection also made from Clydebank Dock Yard to the site of Yoker Shed [CR] on the Rothesay Dock Branch (North British Railway and Caledonian Railway) for east running put in, date uncertain.] This allowed the line through Kilbowie and Yoker Ferry to close. |
| /02/1988 | Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Chivas Bros Siding to Dalmuir Riverside closed, Dalmuir Riverside to Clydebank (Clydebank Central Junction) is disused but retained. The line is dismantled around ten years later and a stump retained at the junction. |
