Victoria Harbour



Dates

  /  /1840Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
Original plan for the Dellingburn Branch abandoned. Revised Greenock to Dellingburn Street and thus to East India Harbour and Victoria Harbour authorised. Access at Greenock would be by reversal. Locomotives were prohibited from the branch.
  /  /1843Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
Dellingburn Branch opened from Greenock to East India Harbour and Victoria Harbour. An elevator connects the station to the branch line.
  /  /1846Victoria Harbour
Construction begins of the dock, designed by Joseph Locke. Locke was also an engineer to the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway whose Greenock terminus (1841) was just to the south.
  /  /1850Victoria Harbour
Construction completed.
  /  /1865Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
Branch from Cartsburn Junction to Victoria Harbour authorised (where it would meet the Dellingburn Branch).
01/06/1869Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
Branch from Cartsburn Junction to Victoria Harbour opened. Proposed branch to Greenock Albert Harbour [Dock] abandoned.