RAILSCOT | Yoker Depot

Loco shed

This is a train servicing depot west of Garscadden station on the south side of the line. It replaced depots at Hyndland [1st] (Hyndland Depot where EMU maintenance was carried out) and Bridgeton Central (Bridgeton Depot which was a stabling and train cleaning site). It is built on the site of Yoker Yard and accessed, to the east, by the former Clydebank Dock East Junction.

Yoker Signalling Centre is located here.

The yard and junction formerly gave access to the Rothesay Dock Branch (North British Railway and Caledonian Railway).

Yoker Shed [CR] was to the south on the parallel Rothesay Dock Branch (North British Railway and Caledonian Railway) running west from Scotstoun West Junction.

Yoker Yard

Yoker Yard was an exchange and marshalling yard for Rothesay Dock. It consisted of two sets of single ended sidings on the south side of the Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway where the Rothesay Dock Branch (North British Railway and Caledonian Railway) branched off to Rothesay Dock. The east yard's headshunts, at its west end, were elevated allowing hump shunting. Clydebank Dock signalbox was located here at the east end where the branch entered the yard. A long siding continued west to Yoker goods yard.

Yoker Yard
12/01/2023

Nearby stations Garscadden Yoker Ferry Scotstoun West Renfrew Wharf Yoker Scotstounhill Kings Inch Renfrew Fulbar Street Deanside Drumchapel Scotstoun Show Yard Drumry Clydebank Riverside Clydebank East Scotstoun East	Yoker Signalling Centre Clydebank Dock Junction Yoker Shed [CR] Scotstoun West No 3 GF Elderslie Brick Works Elderslie Dockyard Clydebank Dock Yard Stone Manganese Marine Limited Bon-Accord Works Clydebank Dock West Junction Albion Motors Ltd Renfrew Ferry Yoker Power Station Yoker Dredger Works Green Road Junction
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

/ /1988	Rothesay Dock Branch (North British Railway and Caledonian Railway) Single track line reinstated from Yoker Depot to the Rothesay Dock for imported coal trains from here to Kincardine Power Station (Kincardine Line). The former Rothesay dock yard was ripped up and replaced with a loop.
30/12/2002	Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway The final public service for a 'Blue Train' Class 303 leaves Belgrove to run via Glasgow Queen Street Low Level to Helensburgh Central, following which it returns to the Yoker Depot. Shortly afterwards it headed to Immingham to be scrapped.

17/05/2012	Yoker Depot - 25 years on [Railscot]