Although General Terminus is closed, the remainder of this railway provides a useful route across the south side of Glasgow allowing freight from the Paisley Gilmour Street direction to run in the Rutherglen direction without reversal. This link passes through a tunnel and is largely in cuttings resulting in its colloquial name the 'Burma Road'.
Formerly it served the quayside facility at General Terminus on the River Clyde which replaced Windmillcroft Quay which was the waterside terminus of the Polloc and Govan Railway.
This line is divided into a number of portions.
The 'main line' extended the Polloc and Govan Railway to the new General Terminus quadside depot and sidings on the south bank of the River Clyde, replacing Windmillcroft Quay a little to the east.
This junction was between the Polloc and Govan Railway's Windmillcroft Quay line (1840) and the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway (1849). The facilities at General Terminus were superior to those at Windmillcroft Quay, which it replaced entirely in 1867.
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This was a large mineral depot in Glasgow, built on the site of a former brickfield. It was enclosed by the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway alignment from Terminus Junction (west) to West Street Junction [CR] (east) to the south, the City of Glasgow Union Railway to the north and Tradeston Gasworks No 3 and West Street itself to the east.
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This is a three way junction, formerly a four way junction.
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Shields Tunnel is a twin bore tunnel, both bores built for two tracks. When built it carried two arms of the new General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway and passed under both the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal and Shields Road (which crossed over the canal by Shields Bridge at this point).
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This junction was between Terminus Junction and Scotland Street Junction on the mineral line to General Terminus. The location was overshadowed by Shields Road [CGU] station to the north of the City of Glasgow Union Railway and Shields station to the south on the Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
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This was the junction between the original General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway and a connection from the City of Glasgow Union Railway from Port Eglinton Junction (Shields Bank Signal Box also closed). The junction allowed trains from the latter line access to General Terminus from the south. The approach from Shields Bank was single track, doubling at the junction.
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This important large mineral terminus served the General Terminus Quay on the south bank of the River Clyde.
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This allowed access to General Terminus from the Barrhead line. A link from this served the Tradeston Gas Works. Although there were coal mines on that line, the curve increased in importance when the Barrhead line was extended south to Kilmarnock.
This junction remains open. This is the junction between the main line south from Glasgow Central to Barrhead and the freight only curve to Larkfield Junction. It was once a goods junction and later the junction between the routes to Glasgow St Enoch and Glasgow Central.
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This junction was formed in 1879 when the Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) (Gordon Street lines) met the 1849 General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway close to Strathbungo Junction (just to the south).
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This is a double junction opened in 1894 to complete the Cathcart District Railway. It provides a connection across the older 1849 Glasgow Harbour and General Terminus Railway to the Glasgow Central approach lines. Rather than cross that line on the level a double junction was formed.
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This small railway workshops was south of Muirhouse Road on the west side of the Glasgow Central approach lines. It was bounded on the west side by the Muirhouse Saw mills and the line from Muirhouse to Terminus Junction.
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This is a three way junction, formerly a four way junction.
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This link had two uses; it allowed trains from the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway to join the Polloc and Govan Railway without needing a reversal and it gave access to General Terminus, albeit via a reversal.
Shields No 1 Junction is the junction between the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway of 1840 and the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway of 1849. The latter now longer accesses General Terminus but continues in its role as a 'bypass' of Glasgow Central for freight from Ayrshire to Lanarkshire and vice versa.
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This was a complex four way largely goods handling junction around 12 tracks wide including sidings. To the west and east was the Glasgow and South Western Railway's 1885 Paisley Canal line. A 1886 Caledonian Railway connection to the north east connected to the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway at Maxwell Junction. To the north west was a [[Glasgow and Paisley Joint ...
More detailsThis was the junction between the 1849 General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway and the 1886 Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway). It provided a goods line up to Bellahouston No 1 Junction. The spur was built by the Caledonian Railway. The signal box opened with the junction in 1886. The box was on the north side of the junction.
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Shields Tunnel is a twin bore tunnel, both bores built for two tracks. When built it carried two arms of the new General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway and passed under both the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal and Shields Road (which crossed over the canal by Shields Bridge at this point).
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This is a three way junction, formerly a four way junction.
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This branch ran from Kinning Park Junction to Kinning Park Goods. The goods yard is now closed, but a link was made at the west end of the site allowing trains to burrow under from Shields West Junction to Terminus Junction.
This junction was between Terminus Junction and Scotland Street Junction on the mineral line to General Terminus. The location was overshadowed by Shields Road [CGU] station to the north of the City of Glasgow Union Railway and Shields station to the south on the Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
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This large goods station was located on the north side of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, however its approach was from the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway its connection being at the east end of the yard directly below the Paisley line from which it ran east to Kinning Park Junction. The yard was an addition to the General Terminus line and did not open with it.
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