Blochairn Steel Works Branch (Caledonian Railway)

Introduction

This branch ran from Germiston, on the old Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway, to the Blochairn Steel Works on the north bank of the Monkland Canal.

The branch was to become the core of The Switchback (Caledonian Railway).



Dates

  /  /1882Blochairn Steel Works Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Branch authorised - Blochairn Branch (Glasgow Lines).
  /  /1882Monkland Canal
Authorisation to abandon a portion of canal at Blochairn. By the Blochairn Iron Works, allowing the Blochairn Steel Works Branch (Caledonian Railway) to occupy its site on the south side of the works.
26/11/1884Blochairn Steel Works Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Line opened from between Germiston Junction High and Blochairn Steel Works.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This was the junction between the Milton Junction to St Rollox [1st] (the original terminus) line and The Switchback line south to Rutherglen. This curve closed in 1962.
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Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway
A3 Pacific 60094 'Colorado' brings the 1.15pm Glasgow-Dundee past Germiston High junction on 7th May 1963. ...
Robin McGregor 07/05/1963
On 29th October 1966, one week before services from Glasgow’s Buchanan Street station came to an end, B1 61330 was photographed passing ...
Robin McGregor 29/10/1966
A clear exhaust from A4 Pacific 60004 'William Whitelaw', accelerating the 5.30 pm three-hour Glasgow - Aberdeen express past Germiston High Junction ...
Robin McGregor 27/07/1963
Standard Class 5 73098 heads towards Buchanan St with the 4.40 pm arrival from Inverness in July 1963. Waiting at Germiston High junction to follow ...
Robin McGregor 27/07/1963
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This junction opened in 1886 when the 1884 Blochairn Branch (Caledonian Railway) was extended south by the The Switchback (Caledonian Railway) to London Road Junction [Glasgow] to meet the 1877 Dalmarnock Branch Extension (Caledonian Railway). The Switchback not only connected the Caledonian Railway's northern and southern systems in Glasgow but also served the [[Parkhead Iron ...

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The Switchback (Caledonian Railway)


This works opened in 1855 for the production of wrought iron, later malleable iron and later still steel. It was located on the north bank of the Monkland Canal, used to deliver coal to the site. The works was served from Garngad to the north west by sidings from the City of Glasgow Union Railway of 1875, which bordered the works to the west. It was also served from [[Blochairn ...

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Monkland Canal