Clydeside Tramway

Introduction

The Clydeside Tramway ran both at street level and along a reserved track. It served the many shipyards and other works in Clydebank along Castlebank Street and South Street. It was connected to the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway at Partick Central and Scotstoun West. It was promoted by Glasgow Corporation.




Dates

  /  /1914Clydeside Tramway
Sidings promoted by Glasgow Corporation to Merklands Wharf. (Later withdrawn.)
  /04/1968Clydeside Tramway
Closed.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Scotstoun to Meadowside





This was an island platform station. The station was just to the north of Yarrow's Shipbuilding, Engineering and Boilermaking Works partly on a bridge. The station was just west of Scotstoun West Junction. The station building was typical of the line.
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Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway
Remains of the former Scotstoun West station (closed October 1964), looking east along the island platform towards Glasgow city centre in 1997. ...
Ewan Crawford //1997
Ex-Caledonian 0-6-0T 56167 shunting near Scotstoun West station on 9 August 1957. The sturdy Dock Tank was a resident of Dawsholm shed at that ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/08/1957
An aerial view with BAE's Scotstoun Yard to the right. To left of the yard was Scotstoun West station and above that the junction with the Rothesay ...
Ewan Crawford 20/07/2011
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This goods yard was very busy with steel traffic for the various nearby shipyards. It was located on the south side of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway with a series of dead end sidings approached from the west. This was also the west end of the Clydeside Tramway by which many works could be accessed.
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This large shipyard is on the north bank of the River Clyde in Scotstoun. It is a naval yard, owned by BAE Systems. It is no longer rail served.
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This shipyard was on the north bank of the River Clyde. Scotstoun Iron Works was to the west and North British Engine Works to the east. It was the yard of Charles Connell & Co Ltd.
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Whiteinch Tramway


This was a street level goods station on the Clydeside Tramway which ran on the south side of the embankment of the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway (there were connections at Scotstoun West Goods and Partick East Junction between these lines). The yard was laid out with a goods shed and loading bank to the west and sidings to the east. It was bound by Scotstoun Street to the ...

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This was the engine works for Barclay Curle's Clydeholm Shipbuilding Yard.
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Whiteinch Tramway








This was Barclay, Curle & Co's Clydeholm Shipyard, which also owned the North British Engine Works.
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Merklands Lairage was built in 1907 to replace the older smaller lairage at Yorkhill Quay allowing it to be redeveloped along with Yorkhill Basin. The lairage was west of Meadowside Quay and east of the Clydeholm Shipbuilding Yard. It received foreign animals.
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This junction was to the immediate east of Partick West station, that station being built on the lines approaching the junction. This was the east junction of a triangular junction, the northern apex being Partick North Junction and western Partick West Junction.
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Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway
Fairburn 2-6-4T 42125 approaches Partick West on an afternoon service from Rutherglen to Dalmuir Riverside in March 1964. The fine tenements on ...
Robin McGregor 25/03/1964
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This immense rail served granary dominated the south of Patrick. It was built alongside the north bank of the River Clyde, the Meadowside Quay. It was built to the north of the long quayside warehouses.
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The vast Meadowside Granary complex was located at Meadowbank Quay, west of the confluence of the Rivers Clyde and Kelvin, on the north bank of the ...
Ewan Crawford //2000
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This quay was on the north bank of the River Clyde, serving the considerable Meadowside Granary to its north. The Merklands Quay was to the west and Meadowside Shipbuilding Yard to the east. To allow its construction Partick Thistle's ground was moved to Maryhill.
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SS 'American Scientist' at Meadowside in the early 1960s. She was built during World War II as a naval transport in the US Navy but was sold to United ...
Brian Haslehust //1963
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View west over the former graving dock of the Meadowside Shipbuilding Yard with the Scotway House building on the right (formerly of the shipyard). ...
Ewan Crawford //2000
The listed 1885 office for the Meadowside Shipbuilding Yard was badly damaged by a fire in May 2016. Latterly known as Scotway House, the offices of ...
John Yellowlees 09/06/2016
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