North Spiers Wharf
Location type
SidingsName and dates
North Spiers Wharf (1847-1964)Opened on the Port Dundas Branch (Caledonian Railway).
Description
A long siding from St Rollox Depot (the Port Dundas Branch (Caledonian Railway)) terminated on North Spiers Wharf alongside the former Forth and Clyde Canal Company office, Port Dundas Sugar Refinery and City of Glasgow Grain Mills. Both were latterly used as bonded warehousing by the Argyll Bonding Company.
The siding from St Rollox Depot crossed the canal by two swing bridges at Port Dundas to reach this point. One of these survives, Port Dundas Swing Bridge.
The track has been lifted and warehouses restored as flats.
'North' refers to the north bank of the canal rather than the northern part of Port Dundas, the opposite bank is South Spiers Wharf.
The quays are named for Archibald Spiers (1758-1832) of Elderslie, one of the canal company directors. This part of the canal was an extension from Hamiltonhill Basin opened between in 1790.
From an early date both the spellings 'Spiers' and 'Speirs' were used interchangeably, but 'Spiers' was generally used more historically (eg entries in the Ordnance Survey Name Books, pre 1930s maps) and 'Speirs' more recently. (A similar situation existed with Spiersbridge, a short lived station also known as Speirsbridge.)
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Sidings canal basinAliases
North Speirs WharfExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
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03/08/2022
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