Lower Port Glasgow Siding
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Lower Port Glasgow Siding (1869-1913)Opened on the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway.
Description
This siding was also known as Devol Glen Quarry siding and Gibbshill Siding. The siding was on the south side of the line, approached from the west, with Giibshill Signal Box on the north side of the line. Devol Glen Quarry was to the south of the siding.
The box closed around 1913.
The Devol Glen Viaduct was to the west.
Despite the name 'Lower Port Glasgow' the siding was above the town, Port Glasgow station on the parallel Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway being much lower down closer to the River Clyde.
The railway, the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway, was singled in 1959 when closed to regular passenger traffic. The westbound line was retained.
The railway closed in 1966.
The trackbed is now a footpath.
Tags
Siding signal box footpathAliases
Devol Glen Quarry Siding Gibbshill Siding| Nearby stations Port Glasgow Bogston Upper Port Glasgow Cartsdyke Woodhall Whinhill Greenock (Lynedoch) Greenock Central Greenock Cathcart Street [1st] Upper Greenock Cardross Greenock West Drumfrochar Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] Greenock Princes Pier [1st] | Devol Glen Quarry Devol Glen Viaduct Quarry Wemyss Bay Junction Brown Street Yard Argyll Street Goods Glen Works Port Glasgow East Yard Kingston Works (Engineering & Shipbuilding) Goliath Crane [Port Glasgow] Kingston Smithy Siding Port Glasgow Graving Dock Inch Works (Engineering and Shipbuilding) Port Glasgow West Dock Port Glasgow East Dock |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Legends of the Glasgow and South Western Railway in the L.M.S.Days |  Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong |  The Glasgow & South Western Railway a History |
