Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Gallowhill Junction (1866-1924)

Opened on the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway.
Opened on the Paisley Abercorn Curve and Greenlaw Goods (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway).

Description

Second Junction

This junction was located between Wallneuk Junction and Arkleston Junction. A footbridge crosses over the line just to the west of its location. The name applied to a series of crossovers on the four track section and on the south side gave access to the Gallowhill Sidings, several sidings on the south side of the line, accessed from the west and with a long headshunt reaching as far west as Wallneuk Junction.

The signal box was in the south side of the line where the sidings came off. It closed in 1924.

Original junction

The junction was originally formed in 1866 when it was the east end of a curve created to connect the former Paisley and Renfrew Railway to the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway. It ceased to be a junction for this route in 1874 when the curve was eased with the construction of a new curve making its connection further east at Arkleston Junction.

Paisley and Barrhead

This was a projected end for the Paisley and Barrhead District Railway of 1906, the eastern junction of a projected triangular junction. The connection was not put in although much of the trackwork was completed.

Tags

Junction

Nearby stations Paisley East Paisley Abercorn Paisley Hamilton Street Paisley Gilmour Street Hawkhead Hawkhead [1st] Sandyford Halt Paisley Canal Paisley Canal [1st] Paisley St James Hillington West South Renfrew Dykebar Renfrew Porterfield Paisley West	Greenlaw Junction Arkleston Junction Gallowhill Sidings Paisley East Junction Arkleston Tunnel Lacy Street Depot Greenlaw Goods Barshaw Park Miniature Railway Paisley Signalling Centre Wallneuk Junction Vulcan Works [Paisley] Vulcan Foundry [Paisley] [2nd] Abercorn Junction Laighpark Engineering Works Carlile Quay
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.