Mossend Marshalling Yard
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Mossend Marshalling YardOpened on the Mossend Marshalling Yard (Caledonian Railway).
Opened on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway.
Description
This large yard spans both sides of the railway at Mossend. Today the yard consists of loops on either side of the line with freight depots on the west side and a fenced Euroterminal depot on the east side.
The yard was first established by the Caledonian Railway on the former Wishaw and Coltness Railway. Expanded around 1903.
It became the main yard in Glasgow with the closure of Sighthill Yard and Cadder Yard in the 1980s.
P. D. Stirling is located in the yard on the west (down) side.
Tags
Sidings Marshalling Yard
Chronology Dates
| / /1897 | Mossend Marshalling Yard (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation to purchase land for the Mossend Marshalling Yard. |
| 11/08/1981 | Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway
Wishaw and Coltness Railway Coatbridge Freightliner Terminal to Mossend Marshalling Yard electrified. |
| 21/01/1998 | Burghead Branch (Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway) 12 week contract to carry grain from Andover to Roseisle Maltings via Mossend Marshalling Yard and Inverness begins. |
| 29/01/1998 | General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway Mossend Marshalling Yard to Falkland Yard caustic soda train derails just west of the former West Street Junction. |
| 28/03/1999 | English, Welsh and Scottish Railway
Safeway English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS) starts a nightly Mossend Marshalling Yard to Inverness train for Safeway. This was the first regular supermarket traffic, the first EWS refrigerated flow and first internal Scottish traffic (which comes complete with backloads). |
| 09/01/2003 | Safeway
Morrisons Safeway purchased by Morrisons, leading to the withdrawal of the container trains from Mossend Marshalling Yard to Inverness and Georgemas Junction. |
