Cartsburn Dockyard
Location type
WaterNames and dates
Cartside Yard (-1883)Cartsburn Dockyard (1883-1983)
Opened on the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway.
Description
This was a ship building yard bounded to the east by the Carts Burn and to the west by the other shipyards of Rue End (later supplanted in 1846 by construction of the Victoria Harbour). The Cartside Yard was equipped with a dry dock for the owners, Robert Steele & Co. Having both slips and a dry dock allowed the company to not only built and fit out ships but also carry out ship repairs when building work was scarce.
Steele & Co opened a second shipyard, Cartsdyke West Yard, to the east (beyond the Carts Burn and Haddow's Cartside Timber Yard), for building iron vessels.
This yard and Steele & Co's Cartsdyke West Yard were later bought by Scott & Co who extended the dock and rebuilt the sites as the Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard. The dock was then known as Cartsburn Dockyard.
Following closure of the yard the dock remains, but is out of use.
Railway access was from the Victoria Harbour to the west. Earlier, during Steele's ownership, there was no direct railway access and Cartsdyke Goods, to the south, was probably used.
Tags
Shipyard Dry dock05/11/2022
| Nearby stations Greenock Central Greenock Cathcart Street [1st] Whinhill Greenock (Lynedoch) Cartsdyke Upper Greenock Greenock West Greenock Princes Pier [1st] Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] Drumfrochar Bogston Fort Matilda Port Glasgow Branchton Ravenscraig | Cartside Timber Yard Victoria Harbour Cartsdyke West Yard Rue End Shipyards Victoria Quay Cartsdyke Slip Boat Building Yard Nicoll Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard East Blackhall Street Boat Builders Yard Arthur Street Engine Works Cartsdyke Goods Greenock Works and Shed Greenock Foundry Tourist/other Greenock John Street Signal Box Greenock Central Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History) |
