This company was created by the Caledonian Railway to operate steamers on the Firth of Clyde which connected with the company^s railways.
Hulls were painted dark blue, saloons white and funnels yellow.
/ /1888 | Caledonian Steam Packet Company Caledonian Steam Packet Company buys Captain Robert Campbell^s business, goodwill and steamers. |
01/01/1889 | Caledonian Steam Packet Company Starts to operate steamers. |
01/01/1889 | Caledonian Steam Packet Company Service from Broomielaw Quay to the Holy Loch via Greenock Customs House Quay and Greenock Princes Pier. |
08/05/1889 | Caledonian Steam Packet Company Company formed to run steamers on the Clyde on behalf of the Caledonian Railway. |
01/05/1890 | Caledonian Steam Packet Company Starts to operate service from Gourock Pier (Kempock Point). Gourock opened 01/06/1889. |
01/06/1890 | Caledonian Steam Packet Company Starts to operate service from Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier to Arran. |
/11/1951 | Caledonian Steam Packet Company PS Waverley [IV], PS Jeanie Deans [II] , PS Lucy Ashton and PS Talisman transferred from the British Transport Commission to the Caledonian Steam Packet Company. |
/ /1953 | Caledonian Steam Packet Company A & J Inglis builds Maid of Argyll and Maid of Skelmorlie for CSP. |
/ /1969 | Caledonian Steam Packet Company Company comes under the control of the Scottish Transport Group. |
/01/1969 | Caledonian Steam Packet Company Becomes part of the Scottish Transport Group. |
/ /1973 | Caledonian MacBrayne Ltd Created when David MacBrayne and the Caledonian Steam Packet Company Ltd merged. |
These locations are along the line.
This pier is open. It is a combined facility with Gourock station. Ferries operate from Gourock to Dunoon Pier and Kilcreggan Pier, and sometimes Helensburgh Pier. The pier is located on Kempock Point.
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This is one of the pre-eminent ^must see^ stations in Scotland. In 1905 it replaced an original Wemyss Bay [1st] station of 1865 on a slightly different orientation (see that entry for the 1865-1905 details). It is a terminus and a combined station and pier with a very fine concourse (with semi-circular ticket office supporting the glass roof), canopied platforms, main station building with a ...
More detailsThis two platform terminus was covered with a wooden trainshed, open to the air over the tracks. The station was located on a pier, which could be used at low tide, built on reclaimed land. There were quayside lines on both sides.
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