RAILSCOT | Containerbase Junction

Junction

Containerbase Junction (1971-1991)

Opened on the Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway.

This junction opened with a new line to serve the Greenock Container Port, built on the site of Greenock Princes Pier station in 1969.

This junction and line opened in 1971, a single track new link from the Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway to the Garvel Dock Branch Junction on the former Inchgreen Branch of the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway. The Greenock and Ayrshire Railway Inchgreen Branch (closed 1961) re-opened to Cartsburn Junction and from there followed the former main line of the route (closed 1966) to Greenock Princes Pier.

The new line and re-opened portions were reinstated as a single track line.

The line was out of use by 1985 and officially closed in 1991. Track remained until around 2010.

Junction
12/08/2019

Nearby stations Cartsdyke Bogston Whinhill Greenock (Lynedoch) Greenock Central Greenock Cathcart Street [1st] Upper Greenock Port Glasgow Greenock West Drumfrochar Greenock Princes Pier [1st] Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] Upper Port Glasgow Woodhall Branchton	Garvel Dock Branch Junction Ladyburn Mineral Depot Carwood Street Works Gibshill Quarry Greenock Ladyburn Shed Ladyburn Junction Ashfield Saw Mills Clyde Pottery United Molasses James Watt Dock Balwhirley Tunnel South Balwhirley Tunnel North Cartsdyke Junction Clyde Foundry and Engine Works Tourist/other Easter Greenock Castle
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

/ /1971	Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway Containerbase Junction opened, a link to the former Greenock and Ayrshire Railway's Inchgreen branch which, beyond Cartsburn Junction, gave access along its former main line to Greenock Princes Pier now rebuilt as the Greenock Containerbase Sidings (Greenock Container Port).
07/06/1971	Greenock and Ayrshire Railway Greenock Containerbase Sidings (formerly the site of Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] station which is redeveloped as Greenock Container Port) to Cartsburn Junction to Garvel Dock Branch Junction re-opened to freight and a new portion from Garvel Dock Branch Junction to Containerbase Junction opened.
/ /1985	Greenock and Ayrshire Railway Last container train from Greenock Containerbase Sidings to Containerbase Junction.
/ /1991	Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway Containerbase Junction to Greenock Containerbase Sidings officially closed (?). (Track remained in place for years.)
/ /1991	Greenock and Ayrshire Railway Official closure from Greenock Containerbase Sidings to Containerbase Junction.