Yoker
Location type
StationNames and dates
Yoker (1882-1953)Yoker High (1953-1965)
Yoker (1965-)
Station code: YOK National Rail ScotRail
Where: West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Opened on the Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Helensburgh.
Description
This is a two platform station. The booking office was at street level on the bridge over the line to the east of the station, on Mill Road. Each platform had a waiting room. No buildings survive.
The goods yard was to the east, on the south side of the line and approached from the east. It was originally served from a connection at Hawick Street but, with the opening of Rothesay Dock and its yards, access from a yard. Yoker High signal box had controlled approach to the goods yard, located on the north side of the line at the point of junction. This had opened in 1896 when the line was doubled and was closed in 1911 when the Rothesay Dock and associated yard and lines opened. (A box is shown before doubling on OS maps.)
The station building on the eastbound platform was of the same style as that at Scotstounhill. Covered stairways ran down to the platforms. Another building was on the westbound platform.
To the south of the passenger station was a railway cottage, now gone.
Tags
Station
| Nearby stations Yoker Ferry Renfrew Wharf Clydebank Riverside Clydebank East Drumry Renfrew Fulbar Street Kings Inch Clydebank Garscadden Kilbowie Singer Workers Platforms Kilbowie [1st] Scotstoun West Drumchapel Singer | Yoker Goods Albion Motors Ltd Elgin Works (Engineering) UCBS Biscuit Factory Yoker Shipyard Green Road Junction Harvey^s Dock Clydebank Junction Clydebank Dock West Junction Yoker Power Station Yoker Dredger Works Clydebank Dock Yard London Works Tourist/other Yoker Distillery Yoker Lodge |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 14/09/1959 | Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway Clydebank East to Yoker (Clydebank Junction) closed to all traffic. |
| 18/12/1966 | Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway Dalmuir Riverside (named Dalmuir), Kilbowie, Yoker, Partick West Junction signal boxes closed. The line from Partick West Junction to Balornock Junction had closed in February. Line singled, the former eastbound line was lifted. (East of Partick Central on the former GCR had closed in 1964). |
