Location type

Junction

Names and dates

Shields Junction (1849-)
Shields Junction No 1 (-)

Opened on the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway.
Opened on the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway.

Description

Shields No 1 Junction is the junction between the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway of 1840 and the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway of 1849. The latter now longer accesses General Terminus but continues in its role as a 'bypass' of Glasgow Central for freight from Ayrshire to Lanarkshire and vice versa.

Original junction

Originally just Shields Junction. It was a double track junction, but has been reduced to a single lead junction for the two lines running east to Terminus Junction and now forms a flying junction. The original line to Terminus Junction is on the south side and is now single. The line on the north side (which flys under just to the east) uses the former Kinning Park Goods approach from Kinning Park Junction to the east (today the connection is made just to the west at Shields West Junction). To the west is a new connection made with Glasgow St Enoch closed which allows access to the Paisley Canal line.

Also on the north side were sidings for works; to the west the Clutha Works.

The signal box was built on the south side of the junction. It was replaced in 1894.

To the south was Bellahouston No 1 Junction. The site is now Shields Road Depot.

Reconstruction

Shields Junction No 1 box closed in 1967 during a huge rebuilding and resignalling project which included:
- the Paisley Canal line was brought to the junction (1966), approaching Glasgow Central rather than Glasgow St Enoch (this was a new connection from Bellahouston No 2 Junction, also rebuilt)
- the construction of Shields Road Depot (1967)
- the electrification of the Greenock line (1967)
- signalling being taken over by Glasgow Central Power Box (1967)

Tags

Junction

Aliases

Shields No 1 Junction Shields Junction
10/01/2023

Nearby stations Kinning Park [Subway] Shields Road [GPJ] Shields Road [CGU] Shields Bellahouston [2nd] Shields Road [Subway] Cessnock [Subway] Dumbreck Maxwell Park Pollokshields West West Street Pollokshields East West Street [Subway] Strathbungo Ibrox [Subway]	Bellahouston No 1 Junction Kinning Park Goods Shields Road Depot Maxwell Junction Pollok Junction Kinning Park Saw Mills Broomhall Engine Works P and W MacLellan Limited Girder Yard Kinning Park Iron Works Shields West Junction [1st] Bellahouston No 2 Junction Parkgrove Iron Works Star Foundry [Kinning Park] Park Engineering and Boiler Works Scotland Street Junction
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.