Faslane Port
Location type
StationName and dates
Faslane Port (1943-1945)Opened on the Military Port Number 1 Railway.
Description
This station was a terminus with a long single platform over 300 yards long. It was located at the end of the Military Port Number 1 Railway in the north west of the site, close to the southern of two jetties in the northern part of the Gare Loch. The station opened to military passenger trains in 1943, Winston Churchill being a passenger on the first train.
Tags
Station Terminus07/09/2021
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| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1946 | Metal Industries (Salvage) Ltd Leases Faslane Port for twenty years as a shipbreaking site. (The Rosyth Dockyard scrapyard site was still in naval use.) |
