Dunrod Loop
Location type
PlaceName and dates
Dunrod LoopOpened on the Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway.
Opened on the Clocherlee Quarry Railway.
Description
This loop is between Branchton and Inverkip, breaking the single track section between Wemyss Bay Junction and Wemyss Bay - it is the only loop on the line. There was no station here. There is a unidirectional line and a southbound loop line.
There was a siding (Clocherlee Quarry Railway) to Clocherlee Quarry which crossed the Kip Water. The signal box here was replaced in 1895, just before much of the line was doubled. In 1903 Dunrod became the northern end of a double track section which ran south through Inverkip to Finnockbog Siding.
The loop is all that remains of the double track section. The box closed in 1967 when Paisley Power Box took over.
Tags
Loop signal boxExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations IBM Inverkip Ravenscraig Branchton Drumfrochar Gourock Fort Matilda Wemyss Bay [1st] Wemyss Bay Greenock West Upper Greenock Greenock (Lynedoch) Greenock Princes Pier [1st] Greenock Central Whinhill | Quarry Clocherlee Quarry Quarry Quarry Quarry IBM Factory Daff Glen Viaducts Inverkip Tunnels Finnockbog Siding Inverkip Power Station Tourist/other Inverkip House Cloch Lighthouse Ravenscraig Hospital Loch Thom McInroy^s Point |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
| Famously, it was at Dunrod box that the signalman had trained his dog to carry tablets. |
Chronology Dates
| 01/06/1903 | Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway Doubling of Dunrod Loop to Wemyss Bay opened. |
