Hamiltonhill Goods
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Hamiltonhill GoodsOpened on the Hamiltonhill Branch (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This was a planned goods yard to be near Firhill Basin and Hamiltonhill Basin of the Caledonian Railway owned Forth and Clyde Canal in north Glasgow. It was to be the terminus of the Hamiltonhill Branch (Caledonian Railway).
The yard was to be on Saracen Street, shown on Post Office maps as a herringbone pattern of lines at 90 degrees to the road with an approach from the west through a tunnel, the line turning tightly from running south west from Possil to south to south east to east.
Instead, the double track line petered out north of the site. Later, Panmure Street was to be laid out to the south of this.
The branch did find use when Ruchill Hospital opened next to an existing wash house and disinfection station alongside the end of the line. Construction of the hospital began in 1895 and it opened in 1900.
Tags
Goods unbuiltExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations St Georges Cross [Subway] Cowlairs Cowcaddens [Subway] Ashfield Possilpark and Parkhouse Possilpark (Private) Buchanan Street Glasgow (Townhead) Eastfield Platform Possil North St Rollox [2nd] Kelvinbridge [Subway] Kelvin Bridge Springburn Charing Cross [GC and DR] | Craighall Goods City Saw Mills Possil Engine Works Hamiltonhill Timber Basin Great Canal Brewery Hamiltonhill Basin Victoria Foundry [Hamiltonhill] Elmbank Foundry Oakbank Mill Port Dundas Sugar Refinery Oakbank Foundry North Spiers Wharf City of Glasgow Grain Mills and Stores Coxhill Iron Works Port Dundas Power Station |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
