Port Eglinton Basin
Location type
PlaceName and dates
Port Eglinton Basin (1811-1880)Opened on the Polloc and Govan Railway.
Opened on the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal.
Description
The basin was the eastern extreme of the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal. It opened in 1811. The Glasgow and South Western Railway owned the canal from 1869.
It was served by a line from the south which ran to West Street Junction, opened around 1840.
To the north was the Eglinton Street Goods of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway (1840) and running immediately to the north of the canal, after 1870, was the City of Glasgow Union Railway. Some realignment of the canal was probably needed at West Street to accommodate both the canal and line.
The canal closed in 1881, the basin possibly closing earlier to allow railway developments. Port Eglinton Goods was developed on the site of the basin.
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Chronology Dates
| / /1791 | Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal Proposed by Earl of Eglinton. (The route between Elderslie and Port Eglinton Basin was later used by the Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)). |
| / /1807 | Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal Construction begins. (The route between Elderslie and Port Eglinton Basin was later used by the Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)). |
| / /1811 | Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal Last section built into Port Eglinton Basin, Glasgow. The canal ran from Johnstone to Port Eglinton Basin. An aqueduct across the Clyde to join up with the Forth and Clyde Canal was considered, but not built. (The route between Elderslie and Port Eglinton Basin was later used by the Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)). |
| 01/08/1811 | Govan Waggonway William Dixon [Junior] buys land from the Corporation of Glasgow for building a waggonway from the Govan Colliery at Govanhill to the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal at Port Eglinton Basin. |
| / /1830 | Polloc and Govan Railway Act receives Royal assent for a line from near Rutherglen to the River Clyde with a branch to the Port Eglinton Basin. |
| / /1837 | Govan Iron Works William Dixon [Junior] opens the Govan Iron Works ('Dixon's Blazes'), for bar iron. It was built near the Govanhill Colliery on the south bank of the River Clyde near Glasgow and Port Eglinton Basin of the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal. |
| / /1842 | Polloc and Govan Railway Around 1842 branch opened to Port Eglinton Basin to goods. |
| / /1842 | Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Short branch to Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal opened. (Eglinton Street Goods on the north side of the Port Eglinton Basin). |
| 01/07/1885 | Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Opened from Port Eglinton Junction to Elderslie Junction. The line uses much of the former route of the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal, the line runs skew across a former aqueduct bridge at Paisley Hawkhead. The canal route under the main line at Elderslie was used for a link to the Bridge of Weir Railway so that Greenock Princes Pier [1st] bound trains did not have to cross the track used by Ayr to Glasgow trains. The former Port Eglinton Basin becomes the Port Eglinton Goods depot. |
