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This junction opened with the line to serve Leven Shipbuilding Yard (the Denny's shipyard thus the original name of Denny's Siding). The branch was on the south/west side of the line, approached from the east, as the westbound main line curved north towards Dumbarton East.

There was a signal box on the west side of the junction, later known as Leven Shipyard.

Just to the west was a small exchange yard beyond this the Blackburn Aircraft Factory, a level crossing over Castle Road and finally the Leven Shipbuilding Yard, which was also served by a line from Dumbarton Joint Goods.

On the north side of the main line at the junction, and served by sidings off a loop on the north side, was the Dumbarton Weldless Tube Company which had an interesting beginning as the Kosmoid Works and went on to become a Babcock and Wilcox works.

The signal box was closed in 1960 during resignalling for the north Clyde electrification. It was replaced by the new box at Dumbarton Central.

The yard to the west survived into the 1980s and was taken out before the Yoker resignalling scheme.

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