Buchanan Street Goods
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Buchanan Street Goods (1850-1962)Opened on the Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This was the most important goods station in Glasgow having grown from a single goods shed (on the south side and alongside the Buchanan Street passenger station) to an enormous facility far larger than the passenger station. Latterly this was a huge stone built goods shed and warehousing.
The goods yard was rebuilt in the 1860s - replacing an array of small sheds - with a fan of lines on the east side which extended south to a block north of Parliamentary Road where a large goods building was erected along with a 5 storey granary. Much of the site had been Cowcaddens East Quarry.
The site of the original shed was also rebuilt with more lines and a large shed.
The new central goods shed had a three floor office block at its south end, a warehousing range of two floors along the whole goods shed building, granary warehousing of five floors down the length of the east side and the goods shed itself which was a single story but considerable in size. The north end of this had a large canopied island platform reaching north to near the passenger station. Three groups of sidings led into the shed.
The goods yard was further extended in 1892/93.
Authorisation, between 1900 and 1902, gave permission to open out the area around Dobbies Loan, build further goods facilities, extend the bridge which carried Dobbies Loan over the widened railway and purchase the site of the Glasgow Poor House.
The new goods shed opened in 1909.
Ultimately there was a goods shed on the south side of the passenger station (the west store), a further shed north of Parliamentary Road (the central store) with the granary on its east side, loading banks and a potato shed and a secondary set of sidings with a loading bank, goods shed (the east store) and warehouse on the west side of Dobbies Loan, approached under a long girder bridge.
The goods yard closed in 1962 and track removed while Buchanan Street passenger station remained until 1966.
The entire area has been landscaped since closure. Cowcaddens Road runs through the site of the central goods shed and granary. On the north side of Cowcaddens Road (from 1971) much of the site is now the Glasgow Caledonian University. Having sat largely vacant for a few years the northern part of the Buchanan Street Bus Station was built on the site of the southern half of that shed and its main front entrance.
Tags
Goods minerals sidings yard| Nearby stations Buchanan Street Glasgow Queen Street Low Level Glasgow Queen Street High Level Buchanan Street [Subway] Cowcaddens [Subway] Glasgow Central Glasgow (Townhead) Glasgow Central Low Level Argyle Street Glasgow St Enoch High Street St Enoch [Subway] College [1st] Dunlop Street Glasgow Cross | Atlas Works Buchanan Street Shed Pulteney Street Engine Works Cowlairs Tunnel Port Dundas Foundry Bergius Engineering Works Port Dundas Engine Works Sun Foundry [Glasgow] Glasgow Pottery London Wharf [Port Dundas] Hamburgh Wharf [Port Dundas] Tourist/other Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Buchanan Galleries Buchanan Street Tunnel West Signal Box George Square [Glasgow] |
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Chronology Dates
| 01/01/1850 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) Buchanan Street Goods station opened. |
| / /1892 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) Enlargement of Buchanan Street Goods completed. (Alternative date 1893.) |
| / /1900 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation to expand Buchanan Street Goods. |
| / /1900 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation to lengthen the Dobbies Loan Bridge (crossing the throat of Buchanan Street station and Buchanan Street Goods). |
| / /1900 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) Purchase of Glasgow City Poorhouse, east of Buchanan Street station, for expansion of Buchanan Street Goods. |
| / /1902 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) The tunnel mouth and area around Buchanan Street Tunnel West Signal Box was to be opened up to allow considerable expansion of Buchanan Street Goods. A portion of Pulteney Street was authorised to be stopped up (in fact the road was removed entirely). This road was to the south of the tunnel's west entrance. |
| / /1905 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) Extension of time to authorisation to lengthen the Dobbies Loan Bridge at Buchanan Street Goods. |
| / /1907 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) Extension of time until 06/08/1910 to authorisation to lengthen the Dobbies Loan Bridge at Buchanan Street Goods. |
| 14/06/1909 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) New goods shed opened at Buchanan Street Goods. The yard is greatly expanded and a new girder bridge crosses over the new lines at Dobbies Loan. |
| / /1913 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) Extension of time allowed to rebuild Buchanan Street Goods. |
| 02/08/1962 | Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) Buchanan Street Goods closed. |
