Princes Pier Shed
Location type
Loco shedName and dates
Princes Pier ShedOpened on the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway.
Description
This was a three road shed occupying a small cramped site on the west side line on its final approach to Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] from the Union Street Tunnel. Approach was from the south.
British Railways made it a sub shed of Greenock Ladyburn Shed.
The shed site was cleared after closure.
| Nearby stations Greenock Princes Pier [1st] Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] Greenock West Greenock Cathcart Street [1st] Greenock Central Drumfrochar Greenock (Lynedoch) Upper Greenock Fort Matilda Whinhill Branchton Cartsdyke Gourock Ravenscraig Bogston | Greenock Containerbase Sidings Princes Pier Junction Bay of Quick Shipyard Princes Pier Goods Union Street Tunnel Albert Quay Greenock Container Port Greenock Gas Works Kilblain Engine Works Newton Street Tunnel Westburn West Shipyard Greenock Albert Harbour [Dock] Westburn East Shipyard Tourist/other Old West Kirk [Greenock] McLean Art Gallery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Legends of the Glasgow and South Western Railway in the L.M.S.Days |  Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong |  The Glasgow & South Western Railway a History |
