Clydebank Central Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Clydebank Central Junction (1976-)Opened on the Clydebank to Dalmuir (North British Railway).
Description
This junction was installed just west of Clydebank Central to allow closure of a length of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway.
The junction allowed trains from the east to join the L&D and run west to coal sidings at Dalmuir Riverside, Arnott and Young [Dalmuir], Chivas Bros Siding, Mountblow Oil Terminal and Arnott and Young [Old Kilpatrick]. The now goods only line was singled.
Around 1980 all sidings had closed except the Chivas Bros Siding. This remained in use until 1988, by which time the far end of the branch had been lifted severing the connection to the oil depot. No buffer was fixed at the line end.
A stub of the line was left to the coal depot until the 2000s.
The junction is now taken out and some out of use and heavily overgrown track remains on 'The Caley Bridge' over Dumbarton Road close to the junction.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Kilbowie Clydebank Singer Workers Platforms Kilbowie [1st] Singer Clydebank East Clydebank Riverside Dalmuir Riverside Dalmuir [1st] Dalmuir Drumry Yoker Yoker Ferry Renfrew Wharf Renfrew Fulbar Street | Singer Works Locomotive Shed Kilbowie Swing Bridge Clydebank Goods Junction Singer Works Post Office Submarine Cable Depot Dalmuir Kilbowie Iron Works Clydebank Goods Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Works Royal Naval Stores Depot Dalmuir North British Chemical Works [Dalmuir] Whitecrook Engine Works Dalmuir No 23 Tunnels Whitecrook Works Lidgerwood Siding Tourist/other Titan Crane [Clydebank] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1976 | Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Connection made from Clydebank Central Junction to a little east of Dalmuir Riverside for west running. [Connection also made from Clydebank Dock Yard to the site of Yoker Shed [CR] on the Rothesay Dock Branch (North British Railway and Caledonian Railway) for east running put in, date uncertain.] This allowed the line through Kilbowie and Yoker Ferry to close. |
| /02/1988 | Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Chivas Bros Siding to Dalmuir Riverside closed, Dalmuir Riverside to Clydebank (Clydebank Central Junction) is disused but retained. The line is dismantled around ten years later and a stump retained at the junction. |
| 25/06/1991 | Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Chivas Bros Siding to Clydebank Central Junction (excluded) officially closed. |
