RAILSCOT | Maryhill Central Junction

Maryhill Central Junction

Location type

Junction

Names and dates

Maryhill Junction (1896-1952)
Maryhill Central Junction (1952-1964)

Opened on the Glasgow Central Railway.
Opened on the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway.

Description

This junction was west of Maryhill Central station. The station was on the east side of Garrioch Road and junction on the west side.

This was the eastern apex of a triangular junction formed with Kirklee Junction to the south and Bellshaugh Junction to the west. It was also where the lines entering Maryhill Central divided into passenger lines (north) and goods yard (south). Carriage sidings on the north side of the station and the goods yard had headshunts on either side of the junction west of the bridge. The junction was a double track junction. Both the line west and the line south crossed the River Kelvin immediately beyond the junction.

The signal box, opened in 1895 (for the opening to [[Kelvindale Paperworks), was on the south side of the junction and west of the bridge.

The line south became a goods only, only going as far as Kelvin Bridge, in 1960. It closed in 1964. Also in 1964 Maryhill Central closed to passengers and the signal box was reduced to a ground frame. The line closed in 1966.

The site of the junction remains, very overgrown. Space was left under the car park and Maryhill Shopping Centre, to the east on the Maryhill Central station site, for possible railway re-opening.

Aliases

Kelvinside North Junction

Nearby stations Maryhill Central Kirklee Botanic Gardens Dawsholm Hillhead [Subway] Kelvinside Hyndland [1st] Lochburn Gilshochill Kelvinbridge [Subway] Kelvin Bridge Summerston Maryhill Maryhill [Temporary] Kelvindale	Kirklee Goods Signal Box Kirklee Goods Kirklee Junction Bellshaugh Junction Ruchill Street Bridge [FCC] Glasgow Lead and Colour Works Ruchill Iron Works Dawsholm Viaduct Dawsholm Shed Maryhill Iron Works Glasgow Rubber Works Ruchill Goods Maryhill Road Aqueduct Tourist/other Maryhill East Signal Box Glasgow Royal Botanic Gardens
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1891	Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Bellshaugh Junction (Glasgow Central Railway) to Maryhill Junction (Glasgow Central Railway) authorised, (which would complete a freight route in the north of Glasgow).
01/08/1895	Glasgow Central Railway Opened to goods from Maryhill Junction to Bellshaugh Junction (using the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway) and from Bellshaugh Junction to Kelvindale Paperworks.
01/05/1896	Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Maryhill Junction to Bellshaugh Junction to Clydebank Riverside, Partick West Junction to Stobcross and Bellshaugh Junction to Kirklee Junction opened for goods. Kelvinside, Partick Central, Scotstoun Goods, Whiteinch [CR], Yoker [CR] opened to goods. Branch into the Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard [2nd] opened.
14/08/1960	Glasgow Central Railway Kelvin Bridge (excluded) to Stobcross Junction (excluded) closed to freight. Kelvinbridge signal box closed. Maryhill Central Junction to Kelvin Bridge remains open as a branch. The portion line from Kirklee Junction to Kelvin Bridge is singled and worked by one-engine-in-steam.
06/07/1964	Glasgow Central Railway Maryhill Central Junction (excluded) to Kelvin Bridge closed to freight
23/09/1964	Glasgow Central Railway Kirklee Junction signal box closed on line closure from Kelvin Bridge to Maryhill Central Junction (excluded).
22/02/1966	Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Partick West Junction to Balornock Junction closed to freight and completely. Crow Road, Bellshaugh Junction, Maryhill Central Junction, Possil North (named Possil), Springburn Park Goods (named Springburn Park), Balornock Junction signal boxes closed on line closure. Access to the remains of the L&DR is made via the Rothesay Dock Branch (North British Railway and Caledonian Railway) with a reversal at Rothesay Dock Yard.