RAILSCOT | Port Dundas Basin

Port Dundas Basin

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Port Dundas Basin

Opened on the Monkland Canal.

Nearby stations Glasgow (Townhead) Buchanan Street Cowcaddens [Subway] St Rollox [2nd] Glasgow Queen Street High Level Glasgow Queen Street Low Level Buchanan Street [Subway] Cowlairs St Georges Cross [Subway] Springburn High Street Glasgow Central College [1st] Barnhill Charing Cross [GC and DR]	Pinkston Power Station Port Dundas Distillery Sidings Port Dundas West Goods [CR] Port Dundas East Goods [NB] Port Dundas Mid Wharf Port Dundas Swing Bridge St Rollox Girder Works Crawford Street Chemical Works Pinkston Mineral Yard Port Dundas Chemical Works Pinkston Iron Works Buchanan Street Tunnel Port Dundas Goods [CR] Cowlairs Incline Tourist/other Port Dundas Distillery
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1770	Port Dundas Road Waggon-road authorised from Port Dundas Basin into Glasgow.
/ /1790	Cut of Junction Act passed for connecting canal between Port Dundas Basin on the Forth and Clyde Canal and Townhead Basin on the Monkland Canal.
11/11/1790	Forth and Clyde Canal Hamiltonhill Basin to Port Dundas Basin opened.
17/10/1791	Cut of Junction Link between Port Dundas Basin on the Forth and Clyde Canal and Townhead Basin on the Monkland Canal opened to through traffic with the passage of the first vessel. The canal was built at the expense of the F&C but to the depth of the Monkland.
/ /1793	Port Dundas Waggon-Road Waggon-road opened from Port Dundas Basin to Glasgow, may have had rails. Financed by owner of Shotts Iron Works, John Baird.
/ /1842	Cut of Junction The portion of canal between St Rollox Depot/Glasgow (Townhead) (Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway) and Port Dundas Basin is improved by increasing the canal depth. This portion was originally only 4ft deep (depth of the Monkland Canal) which prohibited the larger coal boats of the Forth and Clyde Canal reaching St Rollox. The railway depot was rebuilt and enlarged in the 1840s.
/ /1844	Glasgow, Garnkirk and Coatbridge Railway Port Dundas Branch (Caledonian Railway) Extension to Port Dundas Basin authorised.
/ /1867	Forth and Clyde Canal Monkland Canal Forth and Cart Canal Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal Company) Drumpeller Railway Caledonian Railway Forth and Clyde Canal (Forth and Clyde Navigation) including the Port Dundas Basin branch, Monkland Canal, Forth and Cart Canal and various assets such as the Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal Company) and Drumpeller Railway, bought by the Caledonian Railway to compete with the North British Railway in the Forth - Clyde Valley. The North British Railway is given running powers over the Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal Company). Caledonian Railway given running powers over the Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway to Larbert Junction
/ /1952	Cut of Junction Officially closed. The canal, east of Port Dundas Basin, was filled in during the 1960s.
/ /1989	Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bridge which carried the Port Dundas Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) over Springburn Road to Port Dundas Basin dismantled.