Whiteinch Victoria Park
Location type
StationName and dates
Whiteinch Victoria Park (1896-1951)Opened on the Whiteinch Railway.
Opened on the Whiteinch Tramway.
Description
This was a passenger terminus opened next to an existing goods station. The terminus was added to the Whiteinch Railway branch of 1874 alongside, and to the east of, the goods yard and interchange point with the Clydeside Tramway.
It was a two platform island platform station. Each platform had a loop. The station building had large glazed canopies.
A signal box opened with the passenger station. This was at the north end of the station, east side of the line, just south of the Danes Drive overbridge.
It was opened in 1896 by the North British Railway to counter the development of the new Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway and its Whiteinch Riverside station by the Caledonian Railway.
The station closed to passengers in 1951. The box survived until 1958. The line survived for goods only until around 1968.
Nothing remains of the station, the site having been subsumed into Victoria Park. The trackbed is now a footpath. The Danes Drive bridge still stands.
Tags
Station terminus footpathExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
12/08/2019
| Nearby stations Scotstoun East Scotstoun Show Yard Whiteinch Riverside Scotstounhill Jordanhill King George V Dock Platform Scotstoun West Crow Road Deanside Hyndland Partick West Garscadden Anniesland Partickhill Kelvinside | Scotstoun Goods Strathclyde Iron Foundry Thos W Ward [Scotstoun] Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard North British Engine Works Park Shipbuilding Yard Clydeside Iron Works Jordanvale Yard Whiteinch East Shipbuilding Yard Scotstoun Iron Works British Hydraulic Foundry Shieldhall Wharf Shieldhall Wharf Siding Albion Motor Works Tourist/other Fossil Grove |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/07/1872 | Whiteinch Railway Act passed. Built to service the Barclay, Curle & Co's Clydeholm Shipbuilding Yard, Charles Connel and Co Ltd's Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard and Wylie and Lochhead's cabinet and sawmill at Whiteinch Victoria Park, the connection across Dumbarton Road to the works being provided by the Whiteinch Tramway. |
| 01/01/1897 | Whiteinch Railway Line opened to passengers. New Whiteinch Victoria Park station opened. New connection put in to the west of Jordanhill station and west to north spur opened. |
| 02/04/1951 | Whiteinch Railway Whiteinch Victoria Park to Jordanhill closed to passengers. |
| 06/02/1967 | Whiteinch Railway Whiteinch Victoria Park to Jordanhill closed to freight. The line was used for construction trains during the Glasgow North Bank Electrification Scheme. |
