Johnstone
Location type
StationNames and dates
Johnstone (1840-1851)Johnstone High (1851-1962)
Johnstone (1962-)
Station code: JHN National Rail ScotRail
Where: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Opened on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Ayr and Stranraer.
Description
This is a two platform station. The main station building is on the Glasgow bound platform. It formerly had large platform canopies.
There was a large goods yard on the north side of the line, approached from the west. The yard had a large goods shed. This yard expanded and further sidings, and a turntable, were added on the south side of the line.
To the north west was the canal basin of the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal. The goods sidings reached as far as the former basin.
The signal box was at the west end of the station, south side of the line opposite the goods yard turn out. Originally named Johnstone West the box was numbered Johnstone No 2 and replaced, possibly around 1910. With the closure of No 1 box it became Johnstone box. It burned down in 1985, just before replacement by the Paisley Signalling Centre.
Much of the former large goods yard is now the station car park.
Just to the east of the station was the double track junction (Johnstone Junction) between the line to Glasgow (the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway) and a curve put in by the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway to allow trains from Ayrshire to approach Greenock Princes Pier [1st]. The Greenock line is now closed.
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StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Johnstone North [2nd] Johnstone North [1st] Elderslie Houston Milliken Park [1st] Milliken Park Ferguslie Kilbarchan Tweenie Hills Stanely Paisley West Paisley St James Howwood Glenfield Netherfield [Bishopton] | Johnstone Junction Johnstone Canal Basin Banktop Engine Works Union Iron Works Vulcan Works [Johnstone] Cart Junction Cartside Junction Johnstone North Signal Box Barbush Pit No 4 Elderslie Fly Under Clippens Junction Elderslie Junction Brannocklie Coal Pit Fulton Pit (Ironstone) Tourist/other Johnstone Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1811 | Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal Last section built into Port Eglinton Basin, Glasgow. The canal ran from Johnstone to Port Eglinton Basin. An aqueduct across the Clyde to join up with the Forth and Clyde Canal was considered, but not built. (The route between Elderslie and Port Eglinton Basin was later used by the Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)). |
