Maxwell Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Maxwell Junction (1886-1966)Opened on the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway.
Opened on the Maxwell Junction to Bellahouston No 1 Junction (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This was the junction between the 1849 General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway and the 1886 Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway). It provided a goods line up to Bellahouston No 1 Junction. The spur was built by the Caledonian Railway. The signal box opened with the junction in 1886. The box was on the north side of the junction.
The signal box here closed in 1924, control passing to Pollok Junction signal box, which was at a higher level and to the north, on the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway. As a result of this it is sometimes referred to as Pollok Junction Low Level. The boxes had been virtually back to back, Pollok Junction being slightly to the west and north.
The junction closed around 1966. Nothing now remains due to the development of Shields Road Depot.
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JunctionAliases
Pollok Junction Low LevelExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
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Chronology Dates
| / /1884 | Maxwell Junction to Bellahouston No 1 Junction (Caledonian Railway) Approval for a Caledonian Railway owned link between Maxwell Junction (General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway) and Bellahouston No 1 Junction (Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway), which was to open in 1885). |
| 25/01/1886 | Maxwell Junction to Bellahouston No 1 Junction (Caledonian Railway) Line opened between Maxwell Junction (General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway) and Bellahouston No 1 Junction (Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)). |
