Clydebank to Dalmuir (North British Railway)
Introduction
This line provided a second route west from Glasgow Queen Street Low Level by extending from Clydebank to Dalmuir. For further convenience a curve was put in at Jordanhill to allow a train from the Maryhill direction to run west, giving access to shipyards and docks in the process. A section of the Forth and Clyde Canal was realigned to the south near Dalmuir for the construction, where the line passes below.
Dates
| 08/05/1897 | Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway
Clydebank to Dalmuir (North British Railway) Extended from Clydebank Junction to Dalmuir. The original terminus, Clydebank [1st], is left on a short branch with a east facing junction, Clydebank Junction, and is re-named Clydebank East. Dalmuir [1st] is replaced by Dalmuir. |
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Jordanhill Curve
This is a junction between the Anniesland to Hyndland alignment of the 1874 Stobcross Railway and a 1897 curve which runs from north to west to meet the Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway of 1882. The curve is single track (formerly double) and other lines double. The curve crosses Crow Road. The junction is the northern apex of a triangular junction formed with [[Hyndland West ...
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Stobcross Railway
Roger Geach Collection /03/1996
Ewan Crawford 09/12/2016
This junction opened in 1897, the southern end of a curve from Whiteinch North Junction. It was opened as part of the improvements to the Clydebank line which was doubled throughout and extended to Dalmuir to create a new through route. The curve, in particular, gave the North British Railway direct access to several north bank of the Clyde sites from the [[Edinburgh and Glasgow ...
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Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 23/05/1957
Clydebank to Dalmuir
This junction was east of Clydebank East, the terminus of the Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway. This line was extended west to Dalmuir in 1897 leaving the terminus on a short branch. Both lines were double track. The newer line remains open while the original terminus is closed. The newer line gently curved away to the north of the terminal lines, the kink can still be discerned ...
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Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway
This is a two platform station on an embankment. The main station building is on the eastbound platform and it has a footbridge.
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John McIntyre 12/08/2021
David Panton 17/03/1998
David Panton 24/08/2019
David Panton 24/08/2019
This junction was installed just west of Clydebank Central to allow closure of a length of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway.
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Ewan Crawford //1987
Ewan Crawford //1996
Alistair MacKenzie //
This pair of single track tunnels carry the Clydebank to Dalmuir (North British Railway) line under the Forth and Clyde Canal between Clydebank (to the east) and Dalmuir (to the west).
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Ewan Crawford //1999
This short double track tunnel carries the railway via Clydebank under the older line via Singer east of Dalmuir station.
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Network Rail /11/2022
This is a five platform station. There are two platforms on the Singer route and to the north two platforms on the Clydebank route and a bay to the north of those, served from the Clydebank direction.
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Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
John McIntyre 08/10/2015
John McIntyre 08/09/2019
Network Rail /09/2023
This became a junction in 1897 when the former Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway was extended west from Clydebank Junction west to Dalmuir.
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Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Bill Roberton 20/10/2017
John Furnevel 27/07/2005
