Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway

Introduction

This line is open. The line was built as a double track railway shared between the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway (later the Caledonian Railway) and the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (later the Glasgow and South Western Railway).

Traffic levels increased and the line was quadrupled. When the line was quadrupled the tunnel at Arkleston, to the east of paisley, was opened out into a cutting. The line was converted back to double track when it was electrified.

Subsequently, and in anticipation of a new line to Glasgow Airport which was not proceeded with, the line was converted to three tracks, the central track being bi-directional and useful in rush hours.



Dates

  /  /1837Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Act receives Royal assent.
  /  /1837Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway and Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway authorised to make the portion of line between Glasgow and Paisley a joint line.
14/07/1840Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Temporary Bridge Street terminus station, Glasgow, opened.
12/08/1840Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Alternative date for the opening of the Glasgow terminus at Bridge Street.
06/04/1841Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Bridge Street station, on the south side of the River Clyde, opened. It served the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway.
  /  /1842Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Short branch to Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal opened. (Eglinton Street Goods on the north side of the Port Eglinton Basin).
01/07/1843Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Moss Road station opened. (At Cardonald).
06/11/1843Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Bellahouston [1st] station opened. (At Ibrox).
  /  /1845Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Moss Road and Bellahouston [1st] stations closed.
  /  /1846General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway
Act receives Royal assent. Line from General Terminus, a depot on the south bank of the River Clyde, to West Street Junction (Govan and Polloc Railway), Strathbungo Junction (Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway) and Shields Junction No 1 (Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway).
  /  /1846Polloc and Govan Railway Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Branch from the Polloc and Govan Railway to the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway authorised (superseded by the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway).
30/03/1849General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway
West Street Junction (Govan and Polloc Railway) to Shields Junction No 1 (Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway) and General Terminus opened. Curve to Strathbungo Junction (Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway) opened.
23/07/1858Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Line becomes toll free after agreement between the Caledonian Railway and Glasgow and South Western Railway. The agreement also includes the arrangement as to maintenance.
  /  /1863Paisley and Renfrew Railway Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Curve to connect the Paisley and Renfrew Railway to the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway authorised. A goods station at Garrowhill (Greenlaw Goods) is also authorised for the Glasgow and South Western Railway, with the option for the Caledonian Railway that is become a joint goods station.
24/03/1863Paisley and Renfrew Railway
Glasgow and South Western Railway agrees terms of access to the Paisley and Renfrew Railway for the Caledonian Railway. This was in advance of a curve connecting the Paisley and Renfrew Railway to the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway which would open in 1866.
  /  /1864City of Glasgow Union Railway
Act receives Royal assent. The line was to join the Glasgow and South Western Railway (part owner of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway) and Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway serving a central Glasgow station and crossing the River Clyde in the city.
  /  /1864Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
New approach authorised to Eglinton Street Goods from the east end of Pollokshields station (Shields Road [GPJ]) authorised, providing a longer goods only approach and sidings.
  /  /1864Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Moss Road Level Crossing authorised to be stopped up.
  /  /1866Paisley and Renfrew Railway
Curve opened from Abercorn Junction (Paisley and Renfrew Railway) to Gallowhill Junction (Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway).
07/01/1870General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway
Tolls set for the Glasgow and South Western Railway between Strathbungo Junction (Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway) and Shields Junction No 1 (Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway). Either end of the line was joint Caledonian Railway and G&SWR, the intervening line was CR owned.
12/12/1870City of Glasgow Union Railway
Opened between Pollok Junction (on the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway) and the new temporary four platform terminus at Dunlop Street (replaced by Glasgow St Enoch). Glasgow and South Western Railway main line services start to use the new station, local services continue to use Bridge Street. Stations opened at Shields Road [CGU] (interchange with Pollokshields) and Dunlop Street.
  /  /1871Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Running powers granted to the Caledonian Railway and Glasgow and South Western Railway over Govan Tramways 16 and 16A (giving access to shipyards not served by rail).
01/03/1871Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Ibrox station opened on site of former Bellahouston [1st] station.
  /  /1874Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Authorisation given to quadruple line. Authorisation given to open out Arkleston Tunnel, which was required to allow quadrupling of the double track line.
  /  /1875Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway)
Authorisation to expand and alter the existing Bridge Street station, largely in connection with the opening of Glasgow Central. Original proposed route of Gordon Street Lines abandoned.
14/10/1878Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway)
Connection at Bridge Street opened - related to the opening of Glasgow Central.
12/07/1879Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway)
New portions of Bridge Street opened, in connection with the opening of Glasgow Central.
01/08/1879Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway)
Glasgow Central opened. Initially serving westbound trains over the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway .
09/09/1880Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Accident at Penilee Signal Box.
07/01/1881Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Joint Committee decides line remain to toll free.
  /  /1883Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Completion of works to open out Arkleston Tunnel. This allowed the line to be quadrupled.
  /  /1883Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Authorisation to widen the line through Paisley Gilmour Street and rebuild the station.
  /  /1883Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Authorisation of widening (to four lines) and station improvement.
  /  /1883Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Paisley renamed Paisley Gilmour Street.
03/09/1888Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Paisley Gilmour Street's new northern half opened on the Greenock route. The southern platforms become Ayrshire route only.
  /  /1890Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway)
Bridge Street station expanded.
  /  /1892Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
All of Bridge Street station vested in the Caledonian Railway.
  /  /1892Princes Dock Joint Railway (Caledonian Railway, North British Railway and Glasgow and South Western Railway)
North British Railway granted running powers over the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway between Shields Junction No 1 and Cessnock Dock Branch Junction at Ibrox station.
  /  /1892Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Authorisation for Caledonian Railway to purchase land at Shields Road [CR] station.
01/02/1892Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
The Caledonian Railway takes over Bridge Street station completely, paying the Glasgow and South Western Railway £129,251 for its share.
01/08/1892Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Bridge Street station fully taken over by the Caledonian Railway.
01/05/1905Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Bridge Street closed by Caledonian Railway.
01/01/1923Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Caledonian Railway
Glasgow and South Western Railway
Callander and Oban Railway
Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Highland Railway
Cathcart District Railway
Killin Railway
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Committee
Brechin and Edzell District Railway
Dornoch Light Railway
Wick and Lybster Light Railway
Grouped into London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
01/04/1925Glasgow and Paisley Joint RailwayCity of Glasgow Union Railway
New Shields Road station opened incorporating the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Pollokshields station, City of Glasgow Union Railway Shields Road [CGU] station and Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Shields stations.
20/05/1958Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Collision at Arkleston Junction resulting in a death.
14/02/1966Glasgow and Paisley Joint RailwayCity of Glasgow Union Railway
Shields Road closed.
06/02/1967Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Ibrox closed.
30/08/1973Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
A signal passed at danger leads to a collision resulting in a death.
  /  /1975Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Shields Road Depot opened to West Coast Main Line locomotives.
16/04/1979Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
7 are killed in a head on crash directly east of Paisley Gilmour Street at Wallneuk Junction when a DMU starts from the station passing a danger signal and runs into the path of a EMU.
14/01/2008Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Overrunning Glasgow Central re-signalling work at Shields Junction No 1 is completed.
  /01/2011Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Work begins to lay third track, part of a £170M improvement of the line.
  /01/2011Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
New overall roof for Paisley Gilmour Street begins.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This was a large terminus in Glasgow on the South bank of the River Clyde. No part of the original station remains but portions of its later extension remain on Bridge Street. It was replaced by Glasgow Central, just to the north over the River Clyde.
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Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway)
Glasgow Central Station Extension (Caledonian Railway)
This fine building is the only surviving part of Bridge Street station, which was Glasgow's first custom-built passenger terminus, situated just to ...
David Bosher 05/09/2022
385028 leads 385025 with the 17.20 from Lanark, past the former Bridge Street station on the left, on 16 April 2023. The box-shaped structure on the ...
Bill Roberton 16/04/2023
This view shows the offices at Bridge Street looking from Bridge Street itself. ...
Graham Morgan 12/08/2006
A Class 156 still in old ScotRail colours passes Bridge Street in the approach to Glasgow Central ...
Graham Morgan 05/08/2006
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This is a large junction to the south of Glasgow Central station on the south bank of the River Clyde. The junction, and crossovers to the north, allow a train from any platform to take any line.
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Plenty of power on the 5.20pm to Gourock, double-headed by Polmadie Standard Fives 73059 and 73060. The photograph was taken from the train as it ...
Robin McGregor 06/04/1967
An incoming service on the Up Ayr passes the old power signal box with its rather premature welcome to Glasgow Central. You can guess what 'DA' stands ...
David Panton 19/10/2019
Shortly after leaving Glasgow Central on 21 July 1964 Fairburn 2-6-4 tank no 42242 has passed through Bridge Street Junction with a train for Wemyss ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 21/07/1964
The Glasgow Central power signal box on Salkeld Street, in the 'V' of Bridge Street Junction, seen shortly after commissioning in January 1961. See ...
David Stewart //1961
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This small works and locomotive running shed was the principal railway works of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway. It was replaced by the Glasgow and South Western Railway's Kilmarnock Works in 1855.
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This was a mineral depot with a a fan of sidings served from the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, approached from the west.
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This was the temporary terminus of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway in Glasgow, used while the line was in preparation to the permanent terminus at Bridge Street. The extension to that station was elevated on arches. The extension opened to a temporary version of Bridge Street in 1840.
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The former route to Windmillcroft Quay was cut back to West Street a few years after the opening of General Terminus. This view looks north not far ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/03/1956
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This was the Eglinton Street Goods depot of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway. It became the main parcels depot in Glasgow. Following this it was a permanent way base for First Engineering.
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The former yard at the Salkeld Street Parcels Depot, now the scene of much activity as a place where concrete supports for the M74 extension scheme ...
Graham Morgan 23/04/2009
View looking east at Salkeld Street Parcels Depot from pasing train. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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This junction is on the Glasgow to Paisley railway, on the south bank of the River Clyde near Glasgow Central. Today this is the junction between the main Paisley line and the Smithy Lye through road to Shields Road and Shields Junctions.
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The Subway Power Station on Scotland Street, Tradeston, closed in 1935. This was served by a siding off the Glasgow & Paisley Joint Railway with ...
Bill Roberton 05/01/2023
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This signal box controlled the approach to Eglinton Street Goods in Glasgow. This goods yard was approached from the west and was located on the south side of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway.
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This junction was immediately east of Pollokshields station (later Shields Road [GPJ]). It was the west end of a double track loop of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway which began at Cook Street Junction (Cook Street Branch Junction) to the east. The loop served the Eglinton Street Goods which was at the east end of the loop. Access to the goods yard, coming from the west, ...

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Track stockpiled at Shields Road ready for the works over Christmas. ...
Ewan Crawford 23/12/2007
Works at Shields Road. From left: new track panels, Glasgow - Paisley Gilmour Street line. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/12/2007
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This was originally a two platform station opened in 1863 on the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway of 1840. A further four platforms opened to the south as additional lines opened. It opened in 1863 as 'Pollokshields' with Shields Road [CGU] opening in 1870 and Shields in 1885. There were waiting rooms on each platform and a ticket office on the Shields Road bridge at the east end of ...

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Shields Road station, seen in the mid nineteen sixties from the front of a DMU bound for Glasgow Central. ...
Brian Haslehust //1965
View west over the series of bridges which carry Shields Road over the railways south west of Glasgow Central. From right to left: Glasgow Central to ...
Network Rail /06/2023
Shields Road main line station had no interchange with the Subway station of the same name, which is some way off in Scotland Street. There were ...
David Panton 11/09/2010
Fairburn tank 42247 brings a Gourock bound train through Shields Road in the summer of 1950. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/06/1950
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This is the junction between the former Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway and the later City of Glasgow Union Railway (opened 1870). The junction allowed trains from Glasgow St Enoch to join the route west to Paisley Gilmour Street. It was immediately west of the now closed Shields Road [CGU] station.
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City of Glasgow Union Railway
BR Standard 2-6-4T no 80108 brings a Gourock - Glasgow Central train east through Pollok Junction on 23 May 1959. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 23/05/1959
Class 2P 4-4-0 no 40668 photographed near Pollok Junction in the spring of 1959 at the head of a Largs to Glasgow St Enoch train. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1959
Fairburn 2-6-4T 42698 westbound through Pollok Junction on 5 May 1956 with a Gourock train. The dive under for Kinning Park Goods is at the lower ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/05/1956
Fairburn 2-6-4T 42246 runs through Pollok Junction on 5 May 1956 with a Wemyss Bay express. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/05/1956
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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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General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway
42208 passing Shields No 1 Junction on 23 May 1959 with an Ayr-Glasgow train. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 23/05/1959
Fairburn 2-6-4 tank 42176 passing Shields No 1 Junction with a Glasgow - Gourock train on 5 May 1956. Built at Derby in 1948, the locomotive spent its ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/05/1956
'Jumbo' 0-6-0 57230 climbs up from Maxwell Junction to Shields no 1 with a westbound freight on 5 May 1956. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/05/1956
McIntosh 0-6-0 dock tank 56160 passing Shields No 1 Junction on 5 May 1956. The 'Beetle Crusher' is on its way home to Polmadie shed. See image ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/05/1956
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This junction was west of Shields Junction No 1. This junction provided a secondary connection between the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway and the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway (chiefly a goods line). It was at the end of the conventional quadruple track from Paisley Gilmour Street and there was a yard on the south side of the goods line, a series of single ended ...

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Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)


This junction opened in 1868 between the 1840 Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway and the Govan Branch (Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway). Ibrox station re-opened at the junction in 1871.
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Govan Branch (Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway)


This was a four platform station. Two platforms on the main line and two on the line curving north to Govan Ibrox [Govan Platforms]. The two lines met at Ibrox Junction, immediately to the east.
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Glasgow - Gourock locals approaching Ibrox. C.R. 4.4.0 14474. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1939
Glasgow - Gourock locals approaching Ibrox. C.R. 4.4.0 14364. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1939
Goods train passing Ibrox. C.R. 0.6.0 17649. Summer 1937. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1937
Wemyss Bay - Glasgow Express passing Ibrox. LMS 2.6.4T 2560. Summer 1937. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1937
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This is a two platform station. There is a considerable gap between the platforms as the line had been quadrupled, due to increasing traffic, when the station re-opened in 1879. The line was reduced to two lines but a third line has been laid to increase capacity between Glasgow and Paisley.
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Black 5 45455, nearing Cardonald, with the 15.57 Glasgow to Gourock on 13th March 1967. ...
Robin McGregor 13/03/1967
Standard 4MT 2-6-4T 80058 nears Cardonald on the 13.00 Gourock–Glasgow Central, with a strong westerly wind blowing the smoke at almost the same ...
Robin McGregor 23/03/1966
The days of steam in Scotland were numbered as Fairburn 4MT 2-6-4T No.42197 headed through Cardonald on 12 March 1966 with a Glasgow Central to ...
Colin Kirkwood 12/03/1966
A Gourock to Glasgow service calls at Cardonald on 21 July 2018. The high-mast lighting in the background is a familiar feature of the M8 corridor. ...
David Panton 21/07/2018
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This single lead junction is just west of Cardonald station. Its most recent purpose was to reach Deanside Transit.
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Shieldhall Branch (Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway)
Glasgow and Renfrew District Railway
Standard 2-6-0 76071 leaving Cardonald with the 16.54 Glasgow Central to Gourock, seen from an eastbound service heading for Glasgow St Enoch in July ...
Robin McGregor 01/07/1965
'Jumbo' 57360 comes off the Shieldhall branch at Cardonald Junction with an eastbound freight in the summer of 1959.
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G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/06/1959
K2 Mogul 61772 Loch Lochy passing Cardonald Junction on 9 June 1959 with a westbound freight. (The plate on the left lamp bracket reads N279) ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/06/1959
View east at Cardonald Junction showing the cross-over from the centre track to the eastbound track for access to the Deanside Branch. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/11/2011
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This is a two platform station to the south and east of the Hillington Industrial Estate. There is an old station building on the westbound platform.
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A Gourock to Glasgow service pulls into Hillie East on 21 July 2018. The track on the left is the central road, sometimes used by passing trains and ...
David Panton 21/07/2018
A Glasgow to Gourock Service calls at Hillington East on 21 July 2018. From this location it is possible to see the platforms of the stations either ...
David Panton 21/07/2018
Standard 2-6-4T 80058 photographed passing Hillington East with a Glasgow - Wemyss Bay train. ...
Robin McGregor 01/06/1963
Two locomotives from south of the border, of a type not generally seen in Scotland, made an unusual sight parked in sidings near Hillington East in ...
Robin McGregor 01/06/1963
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This is a two platform station.
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Standard Class 4 2-6-0 76071, not long after passing Hillington West with the 17.20 Glasgow Central to Gourock. ...
Robin McGregor 08/07/1965
The 17.13 Glasgow Central to Wemyss Bay, on the fast line between Hillington West and Arkleston, hauled by Standard Class 4 2-6-4T 80086. 8th July ...
Robin McGregor 08/07/1965
A Standard Class 5, thought to have been 73064, photographed on a frosty November morning with an eastbound service near Hillington West. ...
Robin McGregor 15/11/1965
A Gourock to Glasgow Class 380 EMU calls at Hillie West on 17 November 2018. ...
David Panton 17/11/2018
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This box opened north of the railway between Cardonald and Paisley Gilmour Street. The location is now Hillington West station (the station is just a little to the east).
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This signal box closed in 1883 during quadrupling of the railway. It was located between Arkleston Tunnel and Penilee Signal Box.
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This double track tunnel was east of Paisley Gilmour Street and the junction for Renfrew (Arkleston Junction. It was opened out when the line was quadrupled in 1870s-1880s.
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View of the cutting to the east of Arkleston Junction on 1 May 1966 with a Plassermatic Tamper making progress towards converting the quadruple ...
Colin Kirkwood 01/05/1966
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Photo taken from near the signal box at Arkleston Junction on 15 May 1966 showing the steam crane at work during engineering operations to enable the ...
Colin Kirkwood 15/05/1966
A wet afternoon at Arkleston Junction on 22 May 1966 as Metro Cammell unit SC51470 picks its way cautiously through the revised layout and on to the ...
Colin Kirkwood 22/05/1966
15 May 1966 and Arkleston Junction is looking like a model railway layout, with lots of rails lying about and existing ones waiting to be joined up ...
Colin Kirkwood 15/05/1966
1 May 1966 and changes are afoot at Arkleston Junction. In this view, looking west towards the landmarks of Paisley, the down slow line has been ...
Colin Kirkwood 01/05/1966
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66069 passes Gallowhill with coal from Hunterston to Longannet. ...
Bill Hamilton //
66414 passes Gallowhill in March 2011 with containers from Elderslie to Grangemouth. New track being laid towards Arkleston. ...
Bill Hamilton /03/2011
New footbridge recently installed, but not yet open, at Gallowhill Junction on 20th February 2019. Viewed from north side of the lines. Another piece ...
Colin Miller 20/02/2019
One of my first photographs - the footbridge over the line at Gallowhill Junction in 1987. Before this, in pre-camera days, I watched Ayrshire DMUs ...
Ewan Crawford //1987
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A Glasgow to Gourock service passes Wallneuk Junction, immediately to the east of Paisley Gilmour Street station, on 13 July 2019. ...
David Panton 13/07/2019
A pair of 37s take iron ore from Hunterston to Ravenscraig past Wallneuk Junction and the final remains of Greenlaw Goods - a single siding for a ...
Ewan Crawford //1988
Fairburn tank 42191 approaching Wallneuk Junction on 2 June 1959 with the 5.40pm Ayr express. [Ref query 845] ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/06/1959
What was once the new signal box at Wallneuk Junction, shorn of its top storey. Seen here from a passing train in June 2012. [The 'signal box' was ...
Colin Miller 01/06/2012
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This is the principal station in Paisley (Paisley Canal is a terminus.) It is on both the line between Glasgow Central and Greenock Central, Gourock, Wemyss Bay and the line to Ardrossan, Largs, Ayr, Girvan and Stranraer.
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Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
320418 leaves a bright and airy Paisley Gilmour Street, with a service to Gourock, on 14 October 2023.
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Bill Roberton 14/10/2023
With barely a year to go for steam in Scotland, BR Standard 4MT 2-6-4T 80116 of Polmadie gets ready to leave Paisley Gilmour Street on 8 April 1966 ...
Colin Kirkwood 08/04/1966
A £1.4m project to strengthen and re-paint a railway bridge in Paisley will begin next month.
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Network Rail /12/2021
A steam/diesel combination of Clayton D8530 and Fairburn 2-6-4 tank No 42060 head off from Paisley Gilmour Street in the Gourock direction on 14 ...
Colin Kirkwood 14/09/1963
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