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This marshalling yard was on the west side of the main line. Approach from the north was from Southbar Junction and from the south from near Houston station.

Looped sidings were laid out at the north end of the loop line. There were initially four, expanded to six with the opening of No 2 Factory. Initially a second set of looped sidings were parallel and to the west, their southern end running south and west to serve various parts of the Georgetown Filling Factory. Approach to the second set were from the north. Again this altered with the opening of No 2 Factory with the second set of sidings disappearing and the southern end of the original yard, now expanded, leading into the factory.

A second yard was laid out to the south of the No 1 factory on a west-east alignment for the No 2 factory in 1916. The locomotive shed was located here.

The main yard fell out of regular use in 1918-26 when the factory closed. The Caledonian Railway continued to maintain the sidings. Southbar Junction box burned down in 1934. In 1937 a new Southbar Junction was laid in to the north of the original and the southern end of the loop from the main line was made at Barochan Junction where a new box opened. The factory yard's sidings by Southbar Junction remained in use, sidings to the storage area on the former site of the Georgetown Filling Factory led from the south end of the yard. This was the beginning of the construction of ROF Bishopton, a more more facility the construction of which started just before the Second World War.

Barochan Junction box closed in 1952 and the connection was taken out some time before 1967 when the main line was electrified.

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