Port Glasgow
Location type
StationName and dates
Port Glasgow (1841-)Station code: PTG National Rail ScotRail
Where: Inverclyde, Scotland
Opened on the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway.
Open on the Inverclyde Lines.
Description
This is a two platform station with a fine large glazed canopy on the Glasgow bound platform, slightly smaller canopy on the Gourock bound platform, a covered walkway to Princes Street and a traditional covered footbridge.
The station was rebuilt in this grand style and a bay platform added at the west end of the westbound platform between 1913 and 1940 (the bay has since been removed). The station buildings, signal box and footbridge were all replaced. The eastbound platform building, two storeys, had been similar to Uddingston and the westbound building (which was to the east of the footbridge) was a simple single storey building. The original box had been directly west of the footbridge on the south side, in an elevated position to see over the footbridge.
The signal box was at the east end of the station on the westbound platform. There was a trailing crossover at either end of the station in addition to the bay platform.
The station did not have a goods yard alongside, this was further east at Port Glasgow Goods.
The box closed in 1966.
Local
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
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NLS Map
01/05/2023
| Nearby stations Bogston Upper Port Glasgow Woodhall Cartsdyke Whinhill Cardross Greenock Central Greenock (Lynedoch) Greenock Cathcart Street [1st] Upper Greenock Greenock West Drumfrochar Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] Greenock Princes Pier [1st] Kilmacolm | Port Glasgow Graving Dock Port Glasgow East Yard Port Glasgow East Dock Port Glasgow West Dock Port Glasgow Harbour Port Glasgow Wet Dock Dock Shipbuilding Yard Brown Street Yard Bay Shipbuilding Yard Gourock Rope Works [2nd] Newark Shipyard Lower Port Glasgow Siding Glen Works Devol Glen Quarry Port Glasgow Goods |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1862 | Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Port Glasgow branch opened. |
| 15/05/1865 | Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway Line opened from Port Glasgow through southern Greenock to Wemyss Bay. Stations at Upper Greenock, Ravenscraig, Inverkip and Wemyss Bay. |
| 02/06/1902 | Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway Port Glasgow to Upper Greenock doubled. |
| 09/01/1912 | Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Rebuilding and expansion of Port Glasgow authorised. |
News items
Books
 Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History) |
