Greenock and Ayrshire Railway

Introduction

This railway is closed. A short portion remains, out of use, to give access to the Greenock Containerbase (formerly Greenock Princes Pier [2nd]). The line was the Glasgow and South Western Railway's answer to the Caledonian Railway's line from Glasgow to Greenock, which remains open today. But it was more than that, it could also be approached from Ayrshire. It was an express line, well engineered but crossing high ground. As a result powerful locomotives were required to cover the distance from Glasgow to Greenock in a similar time to the Caledonian. The Greenock terminus was located on a pier from which steamers run to various Clyde destinations, a step up from the contemporary Caledonian route which terminated near, but not at, a pier. The latter company completed its line to Gourock Pier to improve its position, leading the G&SWR to rebuilt and improve its terminus. After 1923 both routes were owned by the same company, the LMS. For the last days of the line as a through route it carried boat trains over a single track route (an echo of the Caledonian's line to Ardrossan). Unfortunately the high ground made the line more expensive to operate than the former Caledonian line. Not only this but its stations served a lower populated area. Final approach to the Greenock pier was steeply graded and through tunnels. Runaways were not unknown.





Dates

  /  /1865Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Act receives Royal assent.
  /  /1866Greenock Albert Harbour
The pier is opened before the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway opens its Greenock Albert Harbour station.
  /  /1866Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
The Caledonian Railway's Greenock Albert Harbour is authorised. The Greenock and Ayrshire Railway actually reached the harbour in 1869.
01/09/1869Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Line opened. The Glasgow and South Western Railway run services from Glasgow Bridge Street to Greenock Albert Harbour via Kilmacolm.
25/01/1871Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Traffic agreement for the two lines to Greenock: Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway, owned by the Caledonian Railway, and Greenock and Ayrshire Railway, owned by the Glasgow and South Western Railway.
01/08/1872Greenock and Ayrshire RailwayGlasgow and South Western Railway
Greenock and Ayrshire Railway absorbed by Glasgow and South Western Railway.
01/05/1875Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Greenock Albert Harbour renamed Greenock Princes Pier [1st].
  /  /1881Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Inchgreen Branch to Garvel Dry Dock and James Watt Dock authorised.
  /  /1886Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Inchgreen Branch to Garvel Dry Dock and James Watt Dock opened along with high level sidings to Inchgreen Gas Works.
25/05/1894Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Greenock Princes Pier [1st] station re-built on a grand scale right by the quayside as Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] by the Glasgow and South Western Railway on a grander scale to compete with the Caledonian Railway's Gourock station.
  /  /1904Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Glasgow and South Western Railway authorised to build from Albert Harbour to Harvie Lane.
02/02/1959Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] to Kilmacolm (excluded) closed to passengers. The line is retained for specials and boat trains but is singled.
  /  /1961Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Inchgreen Branch to Garvel Dry Dock, James Watt Dock and Inchgreen Gas Works closed.
30/11/1965Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Last boat train travels from Greenock Princes Pier [2nd].
14/02/1966Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] to Kilmacolm (excluded) closed to Ocean Liner Boat Trains.
26/09/1966Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] to Kilmacolm (excluded) closed to freight. A single track from Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] to Cartsburn Junction is retained for reinstatement.
  /  /1971Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
Containerbase Junction opened, a link to the former Greenock and Ayrshire Railway's Inchgreen branch which, beyond Cartsburn Junction, gave access along its former main line to Greenock Princes Pier now rebuilt as the Greenock Containerbase Sidings (Greenock Container Port).
07/06/1971Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Greenock Containerbase Sidings (formerly the site of Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] station which is redeveloped as Greenock Container Port) to Cartsburn Junction to Garvel Dock Branch Junction re-opened to freight and a new portion from Garvel Dock Branch Junction to Containerbase Junction opened.
08/01/1983Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Kilmacolm line closed completely from Kilmacolm to Elderslie Junction (excluded).
  /  /1985Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Last container train from Greenock Containerbase Sidings to Containerbase Junction.
  /  /1991Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Official closure from Greenock Containerbase Sidings to Containerbase Junction.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Elderslie Fly Under

Built on the route of the former canal.

A Metro Cammell DMU is on the 'fly under' at Elderslie No 2 and is passing under the main line from Glasgow to Ayr. The date is 6 July 1965 and it is ...
Colin Kirkwood 06/07/1965
40689 diverging at Elderslie No 2 Junction on 5 May 1959 with a train for Kilmarnock via Kilbirnie. Elderslie station stands in the left background. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/05/1959
At Elderslie West Junction looking west where the line went downhill and under the main line at the fly under so trains to Kilmacolm wouldnt foul the ...
Graham Morgan 16/07/2008
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West of Elderslie station was a flyunder which allowed a train from the station's slow westbound line to pass under the Ayr mainline to reach Cart Junction and then proceed to Greenock Princes Pier or south via Kilbarchan.
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Crab 2-6-0 No 42861 is using the 'fly under' at Elderslie No.2 on 29 August 1965, in order to gain access to the Lochwinnoch Loop without hindering ...
Colin Kirkwood 29/08/1965
Looking up to the main line from the Fly-under at Elderslie, this shows a Southbound modernised Class 318 . ...
Graham Morgan 26/06/2006
BR Standard 2-6-4T no 80009 passing through Elderslie with a train for Ayr in May 1959. The train is about to cross the bridge over the line used by ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/05/1959
This view looks north at the point where the fly-under went under the main line and headed towards Cart Junction. The track bed here is now part of ...
Graham Morgan 26/06/2006
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This was a large junction of which little remains today, the trackbed being a footpath. The junction was on the south bank of the Black Cart Viaduct.
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See also
Bridge of Weir Railway
Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
North Johnstone Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
A St Enoch - Princes Pier train shortly after passing through Cart Junction on 22 April 1954 (signal box just visible in background). Locomotive in ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 22/04/1954
Looking east towards Elderslie West Junction on 14th May. This is the remains of embankment that ran down the hill from Elderslie West Junction to ...
Graham Morgan 14/05/2008
In 1975 a DMU from Kilmacolm crosses the Black Cart to arrive at the site of the former Cart Junction. The truck stands on the course of the former ...
Bill Roberton //1975
Looking east towards Elderslie West Junction on 14th May. This is the remains of embankment that ran down the hill from Elderslie West Junction to ...
Graham Morgan 14/05/2008
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Johnstone Curve

This was a double track junction east of Johnstone station which was opened with the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway allowing a train from Ayrshire to take the line to Greenock Princes Pier. The north end of the curve was at Cart Junction.
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Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
334006 passing by the junction of the southern part of the Johnstone Curve that connected the GPK&A Railway at Johnstone to the Bridge of Weir Railway ...
Graham Morgan 20/05/2008
40145 East Lancashire Railway bringing up the rear of the SRPS Routes & Branches tour passing Elderslie on 24th August as it heads south ...
Graham Morgan 24/08/2008
334035 passing through Elderslie on 2nd December slowing as it approaches Johnstone station ...
Graham Morgan 02/12/2010
A mixed freight train, behind Clayton D8504, approaches Johnstone (High until 1962) from the Elderslie direction on 27 August 1963. In the formation ...
Colin Kirkwood 27/08/1963
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This was a large junction of which little remains today, the trackbed being a footpath. The junction was on the south bank of the Black Cart Viaduct.
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Bridge of Weir Railway
Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
North Johnstone Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
A St Enoch - Princes Pier train shortly after passing through Cart Junction on 22 April 1954 (signal box just visible in background). Locomotive in ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 22/04/1954
Looking east towards Elderslie West Junction on 14th May. This is the remains of embankment that ran down the hill from Elderslie West Junction to ...
Graham Morgan 14/05/2008
In 1975 a DMU from Kilmacolm crosses the Black Cart to arrive at the site of the former Cart Junction. The truck stands on the course of the former ...
Bill Roberton //1975
Looking east towards Elderslie West Junction on 14th May. This is the remains of embankment that ran down the hill from Elderslie West Junction to ...
Graham Morgan 14/05/2008
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Bridge of Weir to Greenock

This was a two platform station with a goods yard on the north side, served from the east. It was located to the south east of Bridge of Weir.
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A Greenock - St Enoch train restarts from Bridge of Weir on 21 April 1954 under the watchful eye of the signalman. The locomotive is one of Polmadies ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 21/04/1954
Fairburn 2-6-4T 42694 arriving at Bridge of Weir on 21 April 1954 with a train for St Enoch. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 21/04/1954
Just west of Bridge of Weir was this old point rodding next to fairly pristine ballast. ...
Ewan Crawford //1987
The stairway from the road to platform level. There was a second footbridge between the two platforms towards Paisley. ...
Ewan Crawford //1987
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This is a disused five span double track viaduct over the River Gryfe in Bridge of Weir, west of Bridge of Weir [2nd]. The arches are skewed. The viaduct is 39 ft high.
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Looking across the Gryffe Viaduct just to the west of Bridge Of Weir station, looking towards Kilmacolm. ...
Graham Morgan 30/08/2007
Gryffe Viaduct just to the west of Bridge Of Weir station, crossing the River Gryfee. ...
Graham Morgan 30/08/2007
The Gryffe Viaduct at Bridge of Weir on 19th April 2009. View looking West towards Kilmacolm. ...
Graham Morgan 19/04/2009
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This intermediary box was between Kilmacolm and Bridge of Weir [2nd]. The box was on the south side of the lne just to the east of the occupational bridge at Scart Farm. The box was located at the top of the cutting to gain a clear view.
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This was a three platform station on the Elderslie to Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] line. Two platforms were through lines and a third, a bay on the westbound side, faced Greenock. The platforms were heavily canopied.
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1966 photograph of a Derby (Class 107) DMU after arrival at Kilmacolm with a service from Glasgow Central on 17th August 1966. ...
Brian Haslehust 17/08/1966
Standard 2-6-4T 80005 at Kilmacolm, with a service from Glasgow St Enoch. ...
Brian Haslehust 24/06/1964
BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76090 leaving Kilmacolm with a down (westbound) passenger train in November 1958. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/11/1958
View towards Paisley from the B786 overbridge at the former Kilmacolm station. ...
Ewan Crawford 28/09/2017
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Site of a possible short lived station at Upper Port Glasgow Siding? ...

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This goods yard was not in Port Glasgow itself but located around a mile and a half south east. A station was (probably) not opened (Upper Port Glasgow).
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Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42247 approaching Upper Port Glasgow siding from the west on 25 August 1958 with a Glasgow bound train. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 25/08/1958
BR Standard tank 80025 passing Upper Port Glasgow siding with a westbound train on 2 August 1958. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/08/1958
Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42240 passing Upper Port Glasgow Siding on 25 August 1958 with a Glasgow bound train. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 25/08/1958
BR Standard Tank 80002 midway between Kilmacolm and Upper Port Glasgow Siding on 25 August 1958 with a train for Princes Pier. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 25/08/1958
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This siding was also known as Devol Glen Quarry siding and Gibbshill Siding. The siding was on the south side of the line, approached from the west, with Giibshill Signal Box on the north side of the line. Devol Glen Quarry was to the south of the siding.
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Last day of passenger service between Kilmacolm and Princes Pier. Very foggy. 42268 approaching Devol Viaduct with 10.50 am down. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 31/01/1959
Last day of passenger service between Kilmacolm and Princes Pier. Very foggy. 42238 with 12.17 up on Devol Viaduct. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 31/01/1959
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Looking north west over a hazy Greenock on Saturday 2 August 1958 as Fairburn 2-6-4 tank no 42242 passes Lady Octavia Park on the approach to Gibshill ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/08/1958
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Looking east to where the G&SW crossed over the Wemyss Bay line east of Cartburn Tunnel. The Inchgreen line was in a cutting to the left, the G&SW ...
Ewan Crawford //1988
The G&SW line to Princes Pier approaching the twin Cartburn tunnels from the east. Here it crosses the Wemyss Bay line. From the bottom right to ...
Graham Morgan 20/01/2007
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This junction was formed in 1886 when the James Watt Dock and a goods line to the dock at Inchgreen were opened. The junction was with the 1869 Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway, part of the Glasgow and South Western Railway from 1872.
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Looking west, this view shows the trackbed to the overbridge that crossed the Wemyss Bay line, behind the trees, and Cartsburn Tunnels and junction ...
Graham Morgan 23/05/2007
Looking east towards Upper Port Glasgow, the trackbed here ran straight and level to a bridge crossing the road to a small cutting which was in ...
Graham Morgan 23/05/2007
Looking west towards Cartsburn Junction, this view looks up the level where the trackbed was. A bridge crossed a road here as the line began its climb ...
Graham Morgan 23/05/2007
Looking east towards Upper Port Glasgow, it was at this approximate point that the line started its climb of 1 in 70 to Kilmacolm. The trackbed here ...
Graham Morgan 23/05/2007
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This is a disused double track six arch masonry viaduct, over the Carts Burn, on the former Greenock and Ayrshire Railway located between the former Cartsburn Junction (to the east) and former Lynedoch station.
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Speed restriction sign on the approach to Cartsburn Viaduct from Kilmacolm, pictured in 1967. ...
John Gray //1967
Delivered new to Corkerhill shed from Horwich Works one year earlier, BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76099 is seen here eastbound over Cartsburn Viaduct ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/11/1958
Cartsburn Viaduct looking east. Note the new drainage pipes on the side of the viaduct. ...
Graham Morgan 25/10/2006
Cartsburn Viaduct looking west. This shot was taken from next to the Carts Burn itself ...
Graham Morgan 25/10/2006
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This was a two platform station above Greenock, to the north. The station had access from Drumfrochar Road to the east. The main station building was on the eastbound platform.
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Ex-LMS 4F 0-6-0 no 44189 calls at Lynedoch station on Saturday 2 August 1958 with the 3.05pm service from St Enoch. The train is destined for Princes ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/08/1958
BR Standard tank no 80127 runs east through a bright and sunny Lynedoch station on 8 November 1958 with the empty stock of the Empress Voyager ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/11/1958
Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42245 calls at Lynedoch station on Saturday 8 November 1958 with a Princes Pier - St Enoch local. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/11/1958
Looking east back towards the site of Greenock Lynedoch station over the trackbed of the Princes Pier line in March 2011. Off to the left stood the ...
Graham Morgan 22/03/2011
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A little to the west of Lynedoch Station in March 2011. This view shows the trackbed (the track IS under the grass, honestly!) looking back towards ...
Graham Morgan 22/03/2011
View west from the site of Greenock Lynedoch station in June 1969. Scheduled passenger services over this route, which ran to Princes Pier, were ...
Colin Miller /06/1969
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This junction was west of Greenock (Lynedoch) and provided access from the Greenock Princes Pier to Elderslie main line to the Lynedoch Goods yard, the Glasgow and South Western Railway's main goods yard within the town, south of the competing Caledonian Railway's Greenock Goods.
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Looking west along Ann Street Tunnel at Mearns Street SB in 2011. Black and white is used as the light at this point was very poor. ...
Graham Morgan 22/03/2011
Reverting to nature - overgrown and with a waterfall - the entry to the Ann Street tunnel for Greenock Princes Pier at Mearns Street Junction. View ...
Ewan Crawford 03/08/2017
Looking west towards Ann Street tunnel with the recess that once contained Mearns Street signal box on the left. The box, which controlled access to ...
Graham Morgan 22/03/2011
Looking east from Ann Street tunnel towards Lynedoch station in March 2011. Mearns Street signal box was built into the recess in the supporting wall ...
Graham Morgan 22/03/2011
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This is a disused double track tunnel between the former Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] and Greenock (Lynedoch) stations. The tunnel is 718 yds long.
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This was a three road shed occupying a small cramped site on the west side line on its final approach to Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] from the Union Street Tunnel. Approach was from the south.
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17 April 1965, and the Jones Goods has just left Greenock Princes Pier and is charging the 1 in 70 gradient up to Lynedoch Street station. The train ...
Colin Kirkwood 17/04/1965
The sidings alongside Princes Pier shed on a foggy Saturday 31 January 1959, the last day of scheduled passenger services beyond Kilmacolm (although ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 31/01/1959
Locomotives in the shed yard at Princes Pier on Saturday 2 August 1958 include (from the left) 54468, 56165, 54498 and 54506 (all 66D) ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/08/1958
47169 standing at Princes Pier Shed during the late 1950s ...
Graham Morgan Collection //
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In 1969 the former Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] was redeveloped as a container port. The railway was re-instated in 1971 to a set of siding laid out near the former Princes Pier Shed just to south of the A770. The disused railway bridge over the A770 was retained to allow vehicles to reach the sidings from the base.
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View over Clydeport container yard, on the site of Princes Pier Shed, in 1992. ...
Bill Roberton //1992
The bridge over the A770 in Greenock which formerly carried the route into Princes Pier station, off to the right. View is west towards Gourock in ...
John Furnevel 29/04/2007
This bridge carried the approach to Greenock Princes Pier and the Albert Harbour. Today it carries a roadway to the disused container depot sidings. ...
Ewan Crawford //
QE2 seen over the site of the shed at Greenock Princes Pier, later the
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Ewan Crawford //1990
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One of Ladyburn sheds Fairburn tanks, no 42240, pulls away from Princes Pier station on Saturday 2 August 1958 with a stopping train for St Enoch. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/08/1958
Stanier 2-6-4T no 42240 shunting empty stock at Princes Pier station on 2 August 1958. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/08/1958
Travelling on board the Scottish Locomotive Preservation Fund's 'Covenanter' special of 20th October 1962, I took several photos that I hoped would be ...
Robin McGregor 20/10/1962
17 April 1965 and HR 103 is leaving Greenock Princes Pier and about to attack the 1 in 70 gradient towards Lynedoch Street station whilst heading the ...
Colin Kirkwood 17/04/1965
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This was the terminus and pier of the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway in Greenock. The terminus and pier were built on reclaimed land, formerly Bay of Quick. Albert Harbour was built just to the east, the former Albert Quay. The pier opened, before the railway, in 1866. The station opened in 1869. It was replaced in 1894 by Greenock Princes Pier [2nd].
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20189 and 20202 sitting on the overbridge on Brougham Street, Greenock in November 1983 see image 66743. ...
Bill Hamilton /11/1983
BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73104 at Greenock Princes Pier with a boat train for St Enoch in the summer of 1965. Regular scheduled passenger services ...
G W Robin 25/08/1965
BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 73104 of Corkerhill shed at Greenock Princes Pier with a boat train in August 1965. ...
G W Robin 25/08/1965
View of Princes Pier station framed in the gantry of GSWR signals in August 1965 as 73104 awaits the arrival of its train. ...
G W Robin 25/08/1965
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Taken from the 'P S Waverley', 'M V Caledonia' emerging from Greenock in 1980 after her annual docking.
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Colin Miller //1980
Following her service around the west coast (See image 78566) the 'PS Jeanie Deans'' is seen after withdrawal, in Albert Harbour, Greenock, in ...
Colin Miller /05/1965
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Greenock Princes Pier was rebuilt for the Glasgow and South Western Railway in 1894 in a grand Italianate style. This was to counter the Gourock extension of the Caledonian Railway which opened in 1889 (and even the opening of Craigendoran Pier on the north bank in 1882).
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Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42245 preparing to leave Princes Pier on Saturday 8 November 1958 with the empty stock of the Empress Voyager. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/11/1958
BR Standard 2-6-4T no 80127 with the Empress Voyager arriving at Princes Pier on Saturday 8 November 1958. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/11/1958
Stanier 2-6-4T no 42240 waits with a train alongside platform 1 at Princes Pier, Greenock, on Saturday 2 August 1958. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/08/1958
Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no 44189 with a recently arrived train at Greenock Princes Pier station on 2 August 1958. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/08/1958
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Inchgreen Branch

This junction was formed in 1886 when the James Watt Dock and a goods line to the dock at Inchgreen were opened. The junction was with the 1869 Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway, part of the Glasgow and South Western Railway from 1872.
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Looking west, this view shows the trackbed to the overbridge that crossed the Wemyss Bay line, behind the trees, and Cartsburn Tunnels and junction ...
Graham Morgan 23/05/2007
Looking east towards Upper Port Glasgow, the trackbed here ran straight and level to a bridge crossing the road to a small cutting which was in ...
Graham Morgan 23/05/2007
Looking west towards Cartsburn Junction, this view looks up the level where the trackbed was. A bridge crossed a road here as the line began its climb ...
Graham Morgan 23/05/2007
Looking east towards Upper Port Glasgow, it was at this approximate point that the line started its climb of 1 in 70 to Kilmacolm. The trackbed here ...
Graham Morgan 23/05/2007
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Standing just inside Balwhirley Tunnel (North) in the summer of 1963 looking down the bank towards Inchgreen. For the view from the trackbed looking ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/08/1963
The east portal of Balwhirley Tunnel North, seen here on the climb up the branch from Inchgreen on 11 August 1963. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/08/1963
Looking down towards Inchgreen from Balwhirley Tunnel North in August 1963. ...
John Robin 13/08/1963
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This commercial dock was completed in 1886 for the Greenock Harbour Trust. It is a wet dock 2000 ft long (east-west) and 300-350 ft wide with a tongue at the east end. The dock's main entrance is from the west, alongside the Garvel Dry Dock. Another subsidiary entrance to the east connects with the Great Harbour [Greenock] . Both entrances were equipped with gates to allow the 32ft ...

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Greenock Harbour Trust
TSMV Isle of Arran (the spare boat) and MV Hallaig in the James Watt Dock, at the corner nearest the Garvel Dry Dock, in October 2022. ...
Ewan Crawford 18/10/2022
West end of the James Watt Dock in Greenock in 1999, with a sailing ship in the Garvel Dock beyond. The Garvel Park mansion (right) was still standing ...
Ewan Crawford //1999
Back in 1989 the east end of the James Watt Dock was still in use commercially. Three cranes were operational at this time. ...
Ewan Crawford //1989
This 1992 view shows the division between the line up to Bogston station (left) and the dock sidings with the headshunt behind the camera. Gravity ...
Bill Roberton //1992
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The goods yard was on the north side of the Port Glasgow Road. It competed with the Caledonian Railway's Bogston Goods on the south side of the road. The sidings were at the end of a double track branch from Cartsburn Junction. It opened as part of the Glasgow and South Western Railway's railway to the 1886 James Watt Dock.
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Looking east along the remnants of the branch to Inchgreen, where the crane is in the distance. The branch crossed the main line at Bogston station, ...
Graham Morgan 31/08/2007
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This gas works was located on the shore west of Port Glasgow, specifically it was between the Inchgreen Graving Dock (west side) and Inch Works (Engineering and Shipbuilding) (east). The works had a small pier on the River Clyde on its north side. The land the gas works was located on had been the Inch, a small island before land reclamation of mudflats. It was opened by the [[Greenock ...

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Locher Viaduct

This viaduct was between Bridge of Weir [2nd] and Tweenie Hills. It had been a single track viaduct with replacement double track viaduct alongside.

Looking West towards Bridge of Weir, this shows Locher Viaduct. The viaduct was built to carry a single line, but when the line was doubled another ...
Graham Morgan 12/07/2006
Looking West towards Bridge of Weir, this shows Locher Viaduct. The viaduct was built to carry a single line, but when the line was doubled another ...
Graham Morgan 12/07/2006
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Lynedoch Goods

This junction was west of Greenock (Lynedoch) and provided access from the Greenock Princes Pier to Elderslie main line to the Lynedoch Goods yard, the Glasgow and South Western Railway's main goods yard within the town, south of the competing Caledonian Railway's Greenock Goods.
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Looking west along Ann Street Tunnel at Mearns Street SB in 2011. Black and white is used as the light at this point was very poor. ...
Graham Morgan 22/03/2011
Reverting to nature - overgrown and with a waterfall - the entry to the Ann Street tunnel for Greenock Princes Pier at Mearns Street Junction. View ...
Ewan Crawford 03/08/2017
Looking west towards Ann Street tunnel with the recess that once contained Mearns Street signal box on the left. The box, which controlled access to ...
Graham Morgan 22/03/2011
Looking east from Ann Street tunnel towards Lynedoch station in March 2011. Mearns Street signal box was built into the recess in the supporting wall ...
Graham Morgan 22/03/2011
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Looking west towards Greenock's Lynedoch Street tunnels in the summer of 1963 along the lines serving the large Lynedoch Goods depot located ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/08/1963
The tunnel giving access to the former goods depot adjacent to Greenock Lynedoch station. The goods yard is behind the camera. From here the goods ...
Graham Morgan 22/03/2011
Inside the access to the large goods station that was adjacent to Greenock Lynedoch. From here the line went up the hill to join the main line at ...
Graham Morgan 22/03/2011
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Interior of the goods shed at Greenock Lynedoch in 1967. On the left can be seen some of the cranes that were used to unload wagons. By this time all ...
John Gray //1967
A merged image showing part of the extensive abandoned site of the large former goods depot at Greenock Lynedoch in June 1969. View is north towards ...
Colin Miller /06/1969
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