Westerton Junction

Location type

Junction

Names and dates

Milngavie Junction (1863-1989)
Westerton Junction (1989-)

Where: East Dunbartonshire
Opened on the Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway.
Opened on the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway.

Description

This junction is immediately west of Westerton station. Here trains leaving Glasgow divide between the line west and the Milngavie branch.

The goods yard here ran off the branch and is now the station car park.

A signal box was in the 'V' of the junction, in line and on the north side of the Helensburgh line.

The original signal box (marked 'Signalman's Box' on the 1893 publication of the 1857-1860 survey) was on the north side of the junction. After leaving the junction the Milngavie line dropped to a single track. A short siding ran from the point of singling back to the 'V' of the junction.

The box was replaced in 1900 when the Milngavie line was doubled.

The box was renamed from 'Milngavie Junction' to 'Westerton' in 1959.

The box closed in 1990 for the Yoker Signalling Centre. The Milngavie line was singled and the junction converted into a single lead junction. In preparation for this the trailing crossover to the east of the junction had been replaced with a facing crossover earlier in the year.

Tags

Junction

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map




Chronology Dates

28/08/1863Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway
Line opened as a single track. Stations at; Bearsden, Milngavie. The line ran from Milngavie to Milngavie Junction (later renamed Westerton Junction) with trains continuing to Glasgow Queen Street High Level until the Glasgow City and District Railway opened after which trains started to serve Glasgow Queen Street Low Level.
24/04/1900Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway
The line was doubled from Milngavie Junction to Milngavie.
  /  /1992Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway
Line singled from Milngavie Junction to just west of Bearsden and from just east of Hillfoot station to just south of Milngavie station.

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

Around Helensburgh (Archive Photographs: Images of Scotland)

Battrum's Guide to Helensburgh and Neighbourhood

Craigendoran and Helensburgh (East) 1897: Dumbartonshire Sheet 17.06 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Dumbartonshire)

Glasgow Railway Memories

Glasgow Stations

Glasgow's Last Days of Steam

Helensburgh & Rhu Through Time

Helensburgh & the Rosneath Peninsula: The Guide Book: (Including Cardross, Garelochhead & Loch Long)

Helensburgh in Old Picture Postcards

Milngavie 1896: Dumbartonshire Sheet 23.08 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Dumbartonshire)

Old Helensburgh, Rhu and Shandon

Old Milngavie

Rails Around Glasgow

The Bennie Railplane

The Railways of Glasgow: Post-Beeching

The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

The West Highland Way: From Milngavie to Fort William (Cicerone guides)