Saucel Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Saucel Signal Box (1885-1934)Opened on the Paisley Canal Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
Description
This signal box was for the Saucel Goods yard, east of Paisley Canal station. The box was on the south side of the line opposite the turn out for the goods yard which was approached from the east. The yard had a headshunt east of Patrick Street.
The box closed in 1934, but the yard remained open.
The railway closed to passengers in 1983 and re-opened in 1990 with the new Paisley Canal station west of the box's former site, close to the former goods yard (and east of the original Paisley Canal station). The line is now electrified.
Saucel was the site of a basin on the Glasgow and Ardrossan Canal.
Tags
Signal box junction goods| Nearby stations Paisley Canal Paisley Canal [1st] Paisley Gilmour Street Paisley East Paisley Hamilton Street Hawkhead Hawkhead [1st] Paisley Abercorn Paisley West Potterhill Dykebar Paisley St James Glenfield Ferguslie Sandyford Halt | Saucel Iron Works Anchor Mills Saucel Goods Soho Engine Works [Paisley] Paisley Canal Basin Blackhall Viaduct Abbey Works Hawkhead Shell Mex Siding Wallneuk Junction Lacy Street Depot Paisley Signalling Centre Greenlaw Goods Abercorn Foundry Tourist/other Saucel Distillery Paisley Abbey |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
