Lambhill Tunnels
Location type
TunnelName and dates
Lambhill Tunnels (1858-)Opened on the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway.
Description
The double track line passes under the Forth and Clyde Canal via a pair of parallel single track tunnels. The original course of the canal was to the immediate south east, with the tunnel and deviation of the canal being built, and the canal diverted to accommodate the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway.
Approaches to the tunnels are in deep cutting where rockfalls are not unknown.
A minor waggonway (Possil and Eastfield Ironstone Pits (Forth and Clyde Canal)) serving iron ore mines had a quay on the canal, Lochburn Quay. This was located on the southern towpath of the canal above the tunnels, a little to their north. (Much of the course of this waggonway was later used by the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway.)
To the immediate south east the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway passed overhead of the still open line. The bridge abutments remain.
Tags
Tunnel tunnels11/06/2020
| Nearby stations Lochburn Gilshochill Possil North Possilpark (Private) Maryhill Central Possilpark and Parkhouse Summerston Maryhill [Temporary] Dawsholm Ashfield Maryhill Kirklee Botanic Gardens Eastfield Platform Kelvinbridge [Subway] | Lochburn Iron Works Lambhill Iron Works Tamshill Tunnel Lambhill Bridge Stables Stockingfield Stop lock Ruchill Goods Stockingfield Junction [Canal] Possilpark Junction Ruchill Iron Works Maryhill Iron Works Possil Old Quarries Glasgow Lead and Colour Works Tourist/other Lochburn Signal Box Lochburn Quay Ruchill House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
News items
| 04/04/2017 | Glasgow landslip causes week-long rail disruption [BBC News] |
