Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
Introduction
This line is open and carries a regular electric train passenger service between Gourock, Greenock, Paisley and Glasgow as well as branch traffic to Wemyss Bay.
Locations along the line
These locations are along the line.
This was originally a double track station. The original station featured a very tall wooden signal box on stilts.
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Tartan, famous local names and landmarks along with EMU 380011 are on display in the underpass to greet visitors to Paisley Gilmour Street. ...Colin McDonald 22/12/1997
314213, in SPT livery and now some 38 years old, calls right time at Paisley Gilmour Street on a service for Gourock on 7th August 2017. These ...Colin Miller 07/08/2017
When ScotRail decided not to paint all 314s out of SPT carmine and cream I don’t suppose they expected them to last this long. A Gourock semi-fast ...David Panton 07/03/2019
Paisley Underwood. Beardmore once built Taxis nearby. The depot was used by Spillers and Shanks at various stages. Now lifted and gone. ...Ewan Crawford //1987
This is a two platform station.
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Platform view west at Paisley St James on 20 May 2007, looking towards Bishopton. ...John Furnevel 20/05/2007
Looking east at Paisley St James with the station building and a Glasgow bound train. ...Ewan Crawford //
This junction was just west of Paisley St James station. In its final days the branch was a single track serving the former Pressed Steel Co Ltd works.
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Looking west at the former junction to the west of Paisley St James station. The branch still existed to Linwood but the junction itself had been ...Ewan Crawford //
CR 0.6.0 57360 on branch at Paisley St James. ...G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 10/04/1953
This was the northern of a triangle of lines at Walkinshaw. The original junction allowed a train from the Barrhead direction to join the Greenock line.
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Looking to the Clippens Oil Works on the branch from Blackstone Junction, Georgetown (on the Paisley-Bishopton-Greenock line). ...Ewan Crawford //1987
HR 103 at Blackstone Junction bound for the Linwood Branch with the Scottish Rambler ...G W Robin 17/04/1965
This was a two platform station. There was a station building similar to that at Bishopton on the eastbound platform.
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Heading east at Georgetown. No access at the time beyond this fence as it was MOD property. ...Ewan Crawford //1987
This is a two platform station with an original station building on the up platform. There are car parks on the old goods yard (east end of the station, north side of the line and shunted from the east) and an area of ground to the south.
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314s call at Bishopton on 27 April 2017. On the left is 314209 in ScotRail blue heading to Wemyss Bay and on the right 314206 in Strathclyde livery ...John McIntyre 27/04/2017
This tunnel is west of Bishopton. It is 330yds long. Bishopton No 2 Tunnel is just to the west.
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This tunnel is west of Bishopton and Bishopton No 1 Tunnel. It is 350yds long.
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This is a two platform station with a good view of the River Clyde from its platforms. ...
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Eastbound train approaching Langbank. It has just passed over the old bridge over the Greenock road and is about to pass over the girder bridge over ...Ewan Crawford 08/11/2017
A Wemyss Bay to Glasgow train, formed by a SPT liveried Class 314, is seen running between Langbank and Bishopton. This view, across the Clyde, taken ...Mark Bartlett 03/08/2017
This is a two platform station in Woodhall, to the east of Port Glasgow. The station has a footbridge and small station building on the westbound platform. The station was built after housing was built on the Woodhall estate.
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334 017 pulls into Woodhall with a Gourock to Glasgow stopper on 29 April 2009. ...David Panton 29/04/2009
Entrance to Woodhall station on the east side of Port Glasgow. View northwest across Glasgow Road (and the Clyde beyond) on Sunday 29 July 2007. ...John Furnevel 29/07/2007
Glasgow Road entrance to Woodhall station on 29 April. Short on well-kept flower beds, no comfy waiting room, but at least there is a ticket office. ...David Panton 29/04/2009
This shipyard is located on the south bank of the lower Clyde in the east end of Port Glasgow. It is immediately to the west of Newark Castle [Port Glasgow]. Ship building continues today and the yard has been almost entirely rebuilt and thoroughly modernised Ferguson Marine .
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This is a two platform station with a fine large glazed canopy on the Glasgow bound platform, slightly smaller canopy on the Gourock bound platform, a covered walkway to Princes Street and a traditional covered footbridge.
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380 109 to Glasgow Central arriving at Port Glasgow station on 25th July 2017 ...David Bosher 25/07/2017
A Glasgow Central to Wemyss Bay service, formed by 380021, calls at well-maintaned Port Glasgow before taking the branch line on 14th November 2017....
David Panton 14/11/2017
This new mural is in memory of the nine arch viaduct, the Devol Glen Viaduct, which brought the Glasgow and South Western Railway into the town via ...John Yellowlees 25/10/2016
A Sunday morning service from Glasgow Central in April 2007 takes the left fork for Wemyss Bay, at the junction bearing the same name, just to the ...John Furnevel 29/04/2007
A westbound train heading for Wemyss Bay passing the houses of Lilybank Road shortly after leaving Port Glasgow station on 29 April 2007. The train is ...John Furnevel 29/04/2007
80109 approaching from Wemyss Bay. Wemyss Bay Junction. ...G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 27/06/1964
This is a two platform station.
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A Gourock service calls at Bogston between Port Glasgow and Greenock on 7 March 2019. The station appears to have once had a ticket office in the ...David Panton 07/03/2019
A Gourock to Glasgow stopper (showing Glasgow Central twice) calls at Bogston on 7 March 2019. The parallel Wemyss Bay branch can be seen climbing ...David Panton 07/03/2019
Scene at Bogston station in April 2007 looking towards the south entrance from Shankland Road. The bridge and embankment running across the picture ...John Furnevel 29/04/2007
318 266 with a stopping service to Gourock arrives at Bogston on 1 June 2009. Those familiar with the area between Port Glasgow and Greenock will know ...David Panton 01/06/2009
Having a quick look at the condition of the track in the yard - a train is down at James Watt Dock. The (then) recently lifted loop to the left was ...Ewan Crawford //1988
In May 1989, 26041 and 7 molasses tanks slowly rounded the curve close to Ladyburn Junction after leaving the James Watt Dock United Molasses depot. ...Ewan Crawford /05/1989
This double ended shed was located to the south of the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway between Cartsdyke and Bogston station. Approach was from the west. The shed was severely damaged by bombing in the Second World War.
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Looking west towards to the site of Ladyburn Shed. The sheds and stores were at this location, the shed closing in 1966 ...Graham Morgan 31/08/2007
Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no 44011 stands on Ladyburn shed, Greenock, in the summer of 1960. ...Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 31/08/1960
Looking west towards to the site of Ladyburn Shed. The sheds and sidings were on the left, and the mineral sidings and connecting line to the James ...Graham Morgan 31/08/2007
Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no 44011 in the shed yard at Greenock Ladyburn in 1960, with just over 2 years to go before withdrawal from Polmadie in October 1962. ...K A Gray //1960
This is a two platform station to the east of Greenock Central. The station was the closest to the James Watt Dock. ...
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Although superficially similar to its coevals in Glasgow and Lanarkshire Cartsdyke's station has a ticket window separate from the waiting room. I'm ...David Panton 07/03/2019
Clyde tugs Flying Meteor, Flying Typhoon, Brigadier plus an unidentified example, photographed looking east alongside a busy ...A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 20/08/1959
Tugs in their traditional stabling point in Victoria Harbour, Greenock, in the summer of 1959, with empty flat waggons in the siding alongside on the ...A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 02/08/1959
This is the main station in Greenock. It replaced Greenock Bridge Street which was the original terminus of the line. The original terminus line was located slightly to the north and the line was cut back to the new station on opening. The new station opened with extension of the line west to Gourock.
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334030 departing from Greenock Central on a service to Gourock on 11 September. ...Graham Morgan 11/09/2007
Lead flashing in the wall at Greenock Central showing where the former roof of the station met the wall. ...Graham Morgan 11/09/2007
Class 380 westbound and just east of Greenock Central. I've been past this bridge so many times without taking a photograph ... until now. A second ...Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017
This station was a terminus. It was close, but not actually at, Greenock Harbour. It was above street level (described as a 'considerable height' and a set of steps ran from the entrance down to the street. It was close to the harbour but not on a railway pier. The terminus was a short distance south of the West Harbour and a little west of the East Harbour. East Quay Lane ran northwards to ...
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