Merklands Lairage
Location type
WorksName and dates
Merklands Lairage (1907-1974)Served by the Clydeside Tramway.
Description
Merklands Lairage was built in 1907 to replace the older smaller lairage at Yorkhill Quay allowing it to be redeveloped along with Yorkhill Basin. The lairage was west of Meadowside Quay and east of the Clydeholm Shipbuilding Yard. It received foreign animals.
Animals could be driven through the streets to the Bellgrove Cattle Market. At the west end of the site was a goods yard with an island platform with cattle pens, served from the west. There were additional storage sidings. The yard was connected to the Clydeside Tramway which ran along the north side of South Street here.
South of the sidings, west of the lairage building, was the Merklands Timber Yard.
West of the quay was the Whiteinch Ferry, crossing over to the Linthouse on the south bank of the River Clyde.
In 1911 the berth allocation for the quay was for timber and general cargo.
The lairage closed in 1974.
Tags
Lairage cattle quay06/11/2022
| Nearby stations Whiteinch Riverside Partick West Crow Road Partickhill Merkland Street [Subway] Partick Partick [Subway] Govan [Subway] Govan Whiteinch Victoria Park Hyndland Scotstoun East Jordanhill Yorkhill Kelvin Hall | Merklands Quay Partick West Junction Partick Saw Mills Meadowside Granary Meadowside Quay Govan Shipyard Partick North Junction Clydeholm Shipbuilding Yard Partick East Junction Crow Road Tunnel Linthouse Shipbuilding & Engineering Works British Hydraulic Foundry Tourist/other Elder Park Govan Wharf Landing Stage Meadowside Landing Stage |
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Chronology Dates
| / /2002 | Meadowside Granary
Meadowside Shipbuilding Yard According to the developers a new development, 'Glasgow Harbour', will only be a success if a light rail system is extended from the city to the area. The site of the Meadowside Granary becomes flats, the Meadowside Shipbuilding Yard (intended office, leisure and retail developments) and Merklands Lairage sites are cleared and not developed. The sites are a mile downstream of Glasgow Harbour's Queens Dock and Princes Dock. During development the neighbouring cyclepath, the intact solum of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway, is cleared and partly redeveloped, it being explained that the embankment created a barrier between the development and Partick. The alignment from Smith Street to the Merkland Street Tunnel is obliterated. |
