Barrhead Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Introduction
This railway is closed. It ran from Paisley West to Barrhead Central.
This line provided the Glasgow and South Western Railway with an independent route to Barrhead as the route via Pollockshaws was jointly owned with the Caledonian Railway.
Dates
| / /1882 | Barrhead Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Potterhill Branch authorised. |
| 01/10/1902 | Barrhead Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Barrhead Central opened. |
| 01/01/1917 | Barrhead Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Barrhead Central closed. |
| / /1950 | Barrhead Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Barrhead Central demolished. |
Locations along the line
These locations are along the line.
This was a double track junction on the Paisley Canal line between Elderslie and Paisley West. It was the western apex of a triangular junction. The eastern junction was Corsebar junction and southern Meiklerigg Junction.
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See also
Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Ewan Crawford //1987
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/05/1953
This was a double track junction west of Paisley West station. The signal box was above at the top of the cutting on the south/east side of the line, north of Corsebar Road. The junction was south of the Corsebar Road overbridge.
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See also
Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/01/1959
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/09/1957
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/09/1957
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/09/1957
This was the southern apex of a triangular junction. The west junction was at Potterhill Junction and east at Corsebar Junction. The lines were all double track. The box was on the west side of the line just south of the junction and Corsebar Road.
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This was a two platform station which opened as the terminus of a short branch serving Potterhill to the south of Paisley. The main station building, similar to that at Crookston, was on the eastern platform.
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Jim Currie (Courtesy Stephenson Locomotive Society) 21/06/1962
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Jim Currie (Courtesy Stephenson Locomotive Society) 21/06/1962
This was the junction for the short branch to the Gleniffer Depot, just east of the Glenfield Scouring Works. The branch left the Paisley to Barrhead Central line a little south of Potterhill station.
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This depot was the terminus of a short extension of the line south from Potterhill. The depot served the nearby Glenfield Scouring Works and nearby area. The Mullstane Craig Quarry was also served.
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This was a double track junction. A line from the Barrhead Central terminus met a line from Barrhead North Junction (on the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway) here and ran on to Thornly Park Junction and Potterhill.
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This junction was east of Barrhead. It opened in 1902 when the 1848 Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway was met by the Barrhead Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway) and, in particular, its curve from Blackbyres Junction [G and SW].
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See also
Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
Ewan Crawford //1999
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 10/04/1953
This junction was north east of Barrhead station. It was the junction for Barrhead Central. This was a double track junction. On the north side of the junction was the Shanks Victorian Pottery Works, served by a siding making a trailing connection to the Barrhead-Glasgow line.
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See also
Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/10/1956
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 10/04/1953
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 10/04/1953
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 10/04/1953
This station was a terminus. It was located south of the present Barrhead station at Mill Road Square. The platform was an island with a canopy extending out from the terminus building on the square. Both platforms had run-round loops. On the north side were carriage sidings. There was a water tank at the north end of the platform.
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Ewan Crawford //1999
