RAILSCOT | Clydeholm Shipbuilding Yard

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Clydeholm Shipbuilding Yard (1855-1967)

Served by the Clydeside Tramway.
Served by the Barclay, Curle & Co.

This was Barclay, Curle & Co's Clydeholm Shipyard, which also owned the North British Engine Works.

The engine works had a 'Titan' crane built by William Arrol & Co which still stands today

The yard was served by sidings from the Clydeside Tramway, linked to both the Caledonian Railway's Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway and the North British Railway's Whiteinch Railway.

Shipyard
05/10/2022

Nearby stations Whiteinch Riverside Whiteinch Victoria Park Scotstoun East King George V Dock Platform Partick West Crow Road Partickhill Jordanhill Scotstoun Show Yard Merkland Street [Subway] Partick Partick [Subway] Hyndland Govan [Subway] Govan	British Hydraulic Foundry Whiteinch East Shipbuilding Yard Linthouse Shipbuilding & Engineering Works Jordanvale Yard Shieldhall Lairage Thos W Ward [Scotstoun] Merklands Quay Merklands Lairage Park Shipbuilding Yard Shieldhall Wharf Shieldhall Wharf Siding Strathclyde Iron Foundry North British Engine Works Partick West Junction Tourist/other Fossil Grove
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

01/07/1872	Whiteinch Railway Act passed. Built to service the Barclay, Curle & Co's Clydeholm Shipbuilding Yard, Charles Connel and Co Ltd's Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard and Wylie and Lochhead's cabinet and sawmill at Whiteinch Victoria Park, the connection across Dumbarton Road to the works being provided by the Whiteinch Tramway.
/ /1874	Barclay, Curle & Co Company now based at the Clydeholm Shipbuilding Yard having sold the Stobcross Shipyard to the Clyde Navigation Trustees (the entry to the Queens Dock, opened 1880, occupied the site).
/ /1967	Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd Shipbuilding ceases at the Clydeholm Shipbuilding Yard and its modern extension built on the former Jordanvale Shipyard site.