Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Introduction
This line is closed. Known as the Dalry and North Johnstone Railway by the GSW. It ran between Cart Junction (near Johnstone) to Brownhill Junction (near Dalry) and duplicated the existing Glasgow and South Western Railway line from Glasgow to Ayr and Kilmarnock. The double track line featured island platform stations with large signal boxes.
It provided extra capacity and effectively quadrupled the existing line, while serving additional locations and provided an additional connection to the expanding Glengarnock Steel Works. Elderslie to Glasgow was already more than quadrupled due to the parallel Paisley Gilmour Street and Paisley Canal routes, and Brownhill Junction to Dalry Junction was also quadrupled.
Regular passenger services ended in 1966. Closure as a through route was in 1971.
Dates
| / /1905 | Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Opened from Elderslie (Cart Junction) to Dalry (Brownhill Junction) with stations at Johnstone North [2nd], Kilbarchan, Lochwinnoch [2nd] and Kilbirnie [2nd]. |
| 27/06/1966 | Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Elderslie (Cart Junction) to Dalry (Brownhill Junction) closed to passengers. |
| 03/02/1971 | Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Cart Junction to Kilbirnie (excluded) closed to freight. |
| / /1977 | Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Kilbirnie (excluded) to Brownhill Junction closed to freight. Kilbirnie remained served by the network around the Glengarnock Steel Works for a short while. |
Locations along the line
These locations are along the line.
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
Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
North Johnstone Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 22/04/1954
Graham Morgan 14/05/2008
Bill Roberton //1975
Graham Morgan 14/05/2008
This signal box was east of Johnstone North [1st], the terminus of a short branch from Cart Junction. The signal box was on the north side of the line where it divided into passenger and goods lines east of the station.
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This was an island platform station. There were no goods facilities, instead the former terminus Johnstone North [1st], which was just to the north, was used for goods.
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Graham Morgan 25/07/2006
Graham Morgan //2006
Ewan Crawford //1987
This was an island platform station on a double track line. The station crossed Low Barholm to the south of the village. The village has since expanded around the former station.
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Ken Strachan 15/07/2015
Bill Roberton //1975
Bill Roberton //1975
Ken Strachan 15/07/2015
This station never opened. Tracks were laid with a gap sufficient to take an island platform, but no platform was ever built.
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Bill Roberton //1975
Ewan Crawford //1988
Colin Miller 28/01/2011
Colin Miller //1974
This rather ornate bridge over a private road was built close to Castle Semple in a Tudor style.
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This was an island platform station in Lochwinnoch, between the town and Castle Semple Loch.
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Bill Roberton //1975
Bill Roberton //1975
Graham Morgan 20/03/2007
Colin Miller 05/03/2015
This was an island platform station with a building typical of the line on the platform with canopies. It had a single subway entrance from the west which emerged at the north end of the platform with a covered entrance.
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Ewan Crawford 28/09/2017
Ewan Crawford //1987
Graham Morgan 09/07/2013
This junction with a flyover opened in 1905, the south western end of the Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway), an important junction on the Glasgow and South Western Railway's quadrupling from Glasgow St Enoch to Dalry Junction.
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See also
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Ewan Crawford //1987
Ewan Crawford 28/09/2017
Ewan Crawford 28/09/2017
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 27/07/1955
