The Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway terminus at Townhead by the Monkland Canal was extended over a swing bridge to Port Dundas Mid Wharf and on to North Spiers Wharf via a second swing bridge (still extant) to serve Port Dundas Chemical Works, Dundashill Distillery, Leith Wharf, Kirkcaldy Wharf, Rotterdam Wharf, City Flour Mills and Port Dundas Sugar Refinery.
This short extension was built to reach warehouses and a distillery at the western part of Port Dundas.
Goods only.
/ /1844 | Glasgow, Garnkirk and Coatbridge Railway
Port Dundas Branch (Caledonian Railway) Extension to Port Dundas Basin authorised. |
The branch runs west from the sidings by Tennent's Chemical works over the Monkland Canal and Forth and Clyde Canal by swing bridges to reach Spiers Wharf North. At its eastern end the connection was by means of a reversal.
These locations are along the line.
This was the Glasgow terminus of the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway. It was on the north bank of the Monkland Canal just east of the Port Dundas Basin. The depot was chiefly a mineral depot with several sidings serving coal staithes on the canal, very much expanded in the 1840s after the site ceased to serve passengers - a curve in the line betrays where the westwards extension began. ...
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More detailsThis is a disused single track swing bridge which carried the Port Dundas Branch (Caledonian Railway) over the Forth and Clyde Canal from north Port Dundas Mid Wharf over the canal to North Spiers Wharf. The span swung from its south end.
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More detailsA goods shed was located on the north bank of the Forth and Clyde Canal, on North Spiers Wharf, just to the north west of the Port Dundas Swing Bridge. The branch was generally single track but a long length of two lines ran west from from the swing bridge along North Spiers Wharf, through the goods shed to the sheds at Leith Wharf, Kirkcaldy Wharf and Rotterdam Wharf, where the ...
More detailsA long siding from St Rollox Depot (the Port Dundas Branch (Caledonian Railway)) terminated on North Spiers Wharf alongside the former Forth and Clyde Canal Company office, Port Dundas Sugar Refinery and City of Glasgow Grain Mills. Both were latterly used as bonded warehousing by the Argyll Bonding Company.
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A long row of tall former grain mills are located on North Spiers Wharf (the portion running north from Port Dundas) sandwiched between the canal (to the west) and Craighall Road (to the east). To the south was the canal company office and to the north the Port Dundas Sugar Refinery. The mills were built for John Currie & Co.. A siding, the furthest part of the [[Port Dundas Branch ...
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