This line is closed. The line was equiped with passenger stations which were never opened. The line was only opened for freight. The junctions at Arkleston were prepared but the connections never laid in. Track ran from Paisley East to the southern Arkleston junction and stopped just after the junction.
The system was accessed, latterly, from St James Junction, just west of Paisley St James station, which had a large goods yard. The small shed there may have opened in connection with it.
This line was built for several purposes. It was to provide a Caledonian Railway owned route to Greenlaw Goods, a wholly Caledonian Railway owned route from Lanarkshire to Greenock and to provide a passenger route between Paisley and Barrhead serving the area between. The Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway was jointly owned with the Glasgow and South Western Railway, used to reach both Greenlaw Goods and Greenock. A goods depot in Paisley was to be established.
/ /1865 | Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Caledonian Railway's Barrhead and Paisley Branch authorised (not built). |
/ /1868 | Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Caledonian Railway's Barrhead and Paisley Branch, Act abandoned. |
/ /1897 | Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Paisley and Barrhead District Railway authorised. Working agreement with the Caledonian Railway, who are authorised to subscribe. |
/ /1899 | Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Deviations authorised. Branch to Paisley Gas Works authorised (not built). |
/ /1901 | Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Extension of time to build line. |
01/08/1902 | Paisley and Barrhead District RailwayCaledonian Railway Paisley and Barrhead District Railway absorbed by Caledonian Railway. |
/ /1904 | Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Extension of time to complete works until 1907. Authorisation to buy land for the Chain Road Goods and Meikleriggs Goods branch. Agreement made with J & P Coats (the Ferguslie Thread Works was to the north). |
01/06/1905 | Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Line opened to goods and minerals (but not passengers). |
/ /1907 | Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Seedhill Depot (Lacy Street Depot) protective clauses for Paisley Corporation. |
30/06/1958 | Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Blackbyres Junction [CR] (excluded) to Lacy Street Depot (near Paisley East) closed. |
/05/1981 | Paisley and Barrhead District Railway St James Junction to Linwood Car Plant closed to freight (track remains until 1987). Alternative date 21/10/1984. |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This provided a link between the Caledonian Railway's Greenock line and the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. The line was, after severance at Lyoncross Junction, operated from Paisley St James as this best served the goods depots. Walkinshaw to Barrhead (Blackbyres Junction [CR]) was single track and south to Lyoncross Junction was originally double track.
This was the northern of a triangle of lines at Walkinshaw. The junction allowed a train from the Barrhead direction to join the Greenock line. The Caledonian Railway's plan was to create a route fully owned by the CR between Greenock and Glasgow via Barrhead and Cathcart via the Paisley and Barrhead District Railway. It was redundant after the grouping of 1923 which brought the CR and ...
More detailsThere was a triangle of lines at Walkinshaw. At this junction the line from St James Junction met the line from Walkinshaw Branch Junction. The junction opened in 1905.
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This island platform station was completed but never opened. The line was completed in 1905 and opened to goods only. A station building was built and there was a signal box to the south of it on the platform. An entry subway was built at the north end leading to Main Road/Beith Road.
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This island platform station never opened.
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This was an island platform station which never opened. There was a goods yard on the south side of the line approached by reversal from the westbound track. The line was single track on approach to the station from either direction. The west end of the station was crossed by a bridge and access to the platform was by stairs. There was a station building. The goods yard was opposite the GSW ...
More detailsThis was a double track junction immediately to the west of Blackbyres Junction [G and SW].
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This station was never opened. There were two platforms on a raised line complete with platform buildings with canopies. The station at street level bore some resemblance to Dumbarton Central street level buildings.
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This was a 30 arch double track viaduct with a girder bridge crossing roads at either end - Kelburn Street at the west end on the approach to Barrhead South and Arthurlie Street at the east end on the approach to Barrhead New.
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This two platform station was completed but never opened. The double track line was completed in 1905 and opened to goods only. Station buildings were never provided. However the station did open to goods traffic.
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This is a disused concrete six arch double track viaduct. The viaduct crosses the minor Aurs Burn which runs in a deep defile. It is located in the south of Barrhead. The approximate length is 350 ft.
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This junction was immediately west of the never completed Lyoncross station. The signal box was at the west end of its never built island platform and opened with the junction in 1905.
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This was intended to provide a link to Greenlaw Goods in the east of Paisley and the shortest connection for passengers between Paisley and Barrhead. The line was double track.
This was a double track junction immediately to the west of Blackbyres Junction [G and SW].
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The Laundry in the north part of Dykebar Hospital was rail served by a short branch. This connected to the Paisley East to Blackbyres Junction [CR] at a south facing junction. ...
More detailsThis island platform station never opened. There was a station building and a signal box immediately to the south of the building on the island platform. There were no goods facilities. To the north and south the line was double track. The southbound line was lifted first.
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Also known as Paisley East Goods and Seedhill Depot. This goods depot was on the west side of the large stone built embankment of Paisley East station. Unlike the station, the goods yard opened. The yard was approached from a loop off the northbound line, this loop being south of the station. Running round was a little inconvenient as with the connection being onto the loop track. The goods ...
More detailsThis two platform station was built but never opened. The railway opened to goods in 1906. Nearby was the Lacy Street Depot, the goods yard for the station.
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The name of this junction is assumed - it was never laid in.
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This curve was intended to allow a passenger service from Paisley to Barrhead via Glenfield
There was a triangle of lines at Walkinshaw. At this junction the line from St James Junction met the line from Walkinshaw Branch Junction. The junction opened in 1905.
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This junction for the [1902 [Paisley and Barrhead District Railway]] was just west of Paisley St James station on the 1841 Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway. In its final days the branch was a single track serving the former Pressed Steel Co Ltd works.
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This branch left the line at Ferguslie.
This island platform station was completed but never opened. The line was completed in 1905 and opened to goods only. A station building was built and there was a signal box to the south of it on the platform. An entry subway was built at the north end leading to Main Road/Beith Road.
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This was the goods yard for the never opened Ferguslie station. The goods yard was south of the station and reached by reversal from the Meikleriggs Goods branch. To the north was the branch to Ferguslie Clay Works, also served by reversal from the goods branch.
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This goods and mineral yard was at the east end of the short Meikleriggs branch from the south end of the never opened Ferguslie station. The branch also served the Burnbank Chemical Works. The goods yard competed with the Glasgow and South Western Railway owned Ferguslie Goods to the north. Both served the area and the Ferguslie Thread Works, Ferguslie Dye Works and other ...
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