Cambuslang Goods
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Cambuslang GoodsOpened on the Clydesdale Junction Railway.
Description
This goods station was to the north of Cambuslang station, not directly next to the station but at Silverbank. It was on the west (or south) side of the line, approached by reversal. There was a goods shed, sidings and crane. It was connected to the slow line for Rutherglen East Junction, to the west. There was a signal box west of the yard on the south side of the line. This closed in 1973 when control passed to Glasgow Central Power Box.
Tags
Goods sidings06/07/2019
| Nearby stations Cambuslang Kirkhill Burnside Carmyle Rutherglen [2nd] Tollcross Rutherglen [1st] Rutherglen Rutherglen [3rd] Rutherglen [4th] Newton Croftfoot Parkhead Stadium Bridgeton Goods Dalmarnock | Cambuslang Dyeworks Rosebank Bridge Coal Pit Pit Clyde Iron Works Slag Plant Clydebridge Steel Works Junction Clydebridge Viaduct Bogleshole Pit Clyde Iron Works Signal Box [1st] Coats Park Colliery Clyde Iron No 1 Group Sidings Clyde Iron No 2 Group Sidings Clyde Iron Works Colliery Pit No 4 Kirkhill Colliery Tourist/other Busheyhill Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 20/11/1868 | Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) Clyde Iron Works branch ('Lanarkshire and Midlothian Branches' railway number 8) opened from the new Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) (1865), replacing earlier Clyde Iron Works Railways which ran directly from Cambuslang Goods on the Clydesdale Junction Railway. |
