Pinkston Mineral Yard
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Pinkston Mineral YardOpened on the Port Dundas Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway).
Description
This mineral yard was on the west side of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway's Cowlairs Incline. Approach was from the north (giving the appearance of three tracks on the incline) with the connection to the main line at the south end of Cowlairs station. The sidings fanned out on the east side of Keppochhill Road.
Lines connecting from the throat of the yard ran west to Craighall Goods (from which, by reversal, Port Dundas Distillery was reached) and south east to St Rollox Chemical Works (by a straggling line crossing the main line).
The yard survived the other lines, to be the final part of the Port Dundas Branch in the mid 1980s. The coal yard itself survived the removal of the sidings for some years.
The site is now a light industrial estate.
Tags
Sidings coal depot
| Nearby stations Glasgow (Townhead) St Rollox [2nd] Cowlairs Buchanan Street Cowcaddens [Subway] Springburn Barnhill Glasgow Queen Street Low Level Glasgow Queen Street High Level Buchanan Street [Subway] Eastfield Platform Ashfield St Georges Cross [Subway] High Street Garngad | Pinkston Iron Works Coxhill Iron Works Cowlairs Incline Port Dundas East Goods [NB] Pinkston Power Station Port Dundas West Goods [CR] Springbank Foundry Port Dundas Distillery Sidings Port Dundas Basin St Rollox Girder Works Pinkston Bog Port Dundas Mid Wharf Port Dundas Swing Bridge Tourist/other Port Dundas Distillery Buchanan Street Tunnel East Signal Box |
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