RAILSCOT | Singer Works

/ /1884	Singer Manufacturing Company (US) Build new Singer Works at Kilbowie.
15/06/1896	Forth and Cart Canal In Clydebank the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway line makes use of some of the former route of the Forth and Cart Canal between Clydebank [CR] and Kilbowie. This swing north under the North British Railway to pass through Kilbowie Road station and then pass back over the NBR was planned to avoid the northern part of the Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard [2nd] and serve the Singer Works. A portion of the canal was left at either end, the southern part on the east side of the Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard [2nd].
03/11/1907	Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Singer station on new loop line skirting round the north of the Singer Works opened. The old course of the line becomes a goods line to the west of Kilbowie Road and the old station becomes a terminus for worker's trains, Singer Workers Platforms, and is expanded to 6 platforms.
20/03/1964	Singer Works Springburn to Singer Workers Platforms passenger trains cease.