Bowhouse Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Bowhouse Signal Box (1940-1971)Opened on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway.
Description
This signal box opened in the Second World War to control access to the Bowhouse Munitions Depot. This was an Air Ministry Munitions Factory where incendiary bombs were assembled.
The signal box was on the north side of the line opposite the siding which was attached to the northbound line and served from the north. With the opening of this box the nearby intermediate Barleith Signal Box, to the north, closed.
After the war the site remained in use and closed around 1968. The signal box closed in 1971.
The depot site is now a prison.
Tags
Signal box Second World WarExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
