Cadder Yard: Cadder Yard looking west with signalbox to left.
Bill Roberton //1994
Cadder Yard
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Cadder Yard (1901-1980)Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Opened on the Cadder Marshalling Yard and Colliery Branches (North British Railway).
Description
This was a large marshalling yard on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway built by the North British Railway. It was hump shunted. The northern part of the yard was looped and the southern part was originally a set of dead end sidings shunted from the west but later looped.
The principal use of the yard was to serve the goods yards at High Street Goods and Sighthill Goods allowing marshalling of trains from various locations surrounding Glasgow and only tripping to those yard the portions of trains which needed to travel there. Prior to its opening marshalling of trains was handled at the goods yard themselves leading to congestion. Later, in BR days, the yard also served College Goods.
The yard was modified by the BR 1950s modernisation plan but really just continued in its existing role.
A small part of the yard, really just loop on either side of the line and a few sidings, remain here. The yard closed in 1980 at the time when the major goods stations in Glasgow closed.
At the west end was the Bishopbriggs Oil Depot, partly built on the cut back remains of a colliery line which ran as far west as the Wilderness Plantation and crossed the Forth and Clyde Canal.
At the east end was a colliery line running south east, re-routed to suit the opening of the yard.
The yard was used as a depot during electrification of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
It is now an train servicing depot.
The yard had a private halt opened between 1899 and 1903 and closed around 1959. Initially there was no halt, the staff had to use other means to reach the yard.
Tags
Sidings marshalling yardAliases
Cadder Marshalling YardExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Lenzie Kirkintilloch [1st] Kirkintilloch Basin Woodley Back O Loch Halt Bishopbriggs Robroyston Torrance Kirkintilloch [2nd] Stepps [1st] Stepps Balmore Eastfield Platform Springburn Barnhill | Cadder Turntable Cadder Siding Westerhill Pipe Works Wester Auchengeich Colliery Bishopbriggs Oil Depot High Moss Pit Brickworks Kirkintilloch Nickel Works Kirkintilloch Precast Cement Works Bishopbriggs Pit Garngaber Yard Woodley Junction Woodley Lye Tourist/other Cadder East Signal Box Cadder West Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
E&G MilepostsA milepost which was formerly at Cadder Yard, 'Edinburgh 41 - Glasgow 5', is at Haymarket station. The 'Edinburgh 32 - Glasgow 14' milepost from near Dullator Colliery is at Glasgow Queen Street High Level. |
Chronology Dates
| /10/1901 | Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway New Cadder Yard, a hump shunted marshalling yard, opened by the North British Railway. It was part of a much larger reorganisation of the NBR's goods facilities in Glasgow including rebuilding High Street Goods and Sighthill Goods, and the opening of Shettleston Yard, a further marshalling yard. |
