A History of Britain’s Railways
Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
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Introduction
Local area
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Locations
Princes
Pier
Lynedoch
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Inchgreen
Port Glasgow Upper
Kilmacolm
Bridge of Weir
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Glasgow and South
Western Railway
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This railway is closed. A short portion remains, out of use, to give access to the Greenock Container Depot (formerly Greenock Princes Pier). |
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This line ran from farmland to the southeast of Greenock into Greenock and to the waterfront.
From Greenock to Bridge of Weir.
Princes Pier
This site is now the Greenock Clyde Port Authority Terminal (formerly Princes Pier).
This photograph shows the closed Freightliner depot at Princes Pier. The locomotive shed was on the left (out of the picture) and the station was in the distance by the cranes. From here the line runs up the hill in tunnels to Lynedoch.
Lynedoch
Cartsburn Junction
(Greenock and Wemyss
Bay Railway)
There was an end-on junction with the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway's James Watt Dock branch here.
From ~1966 to 1983 Kilmacolm was the terminus of a branch from Elderslie. The portion between Kilmacolm and Greenock was singled, then closed and lifted at an earlier date. The Kilmacolm line was single track, making use of the former Glasgow-bound track.
Above Kilmacolm there is a narrow gauge railway (Duchal Moor Railway).
Bridge of Weir
(Bridge of Weir Railway)
