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Glasgow, Paisley And Greenock Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Looking east at Langbank station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/64.jpg "Langbank")
![Looking north at Bogston station<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/505.jpg "Bogston")
![Looking east at Cartsdyke station. Class 303 in station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/506.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![Looking east in Greenock Central station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/509.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Looking east in Greenock Central station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/510.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Looking east in Greenock Central station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/511.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Looking west at Greenock Central station, east end of platforms.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/512.jpg "Greenock Central")
![View looking west over the site of Greenock Ladyburn shed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/515.jpg "Ladyburn shed")
![Looking west at Port Glasgow station, Goliath crane in background.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/517.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![View looking west at Port Glasgow station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/518.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![Class 303 in Port Glasgow station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/519.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![View looking west at Woodhall station. Class 303 entering station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/520.jpg "Woodhall")
![Bishopton station looking northeast. The building has been re-built since.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1933.jpg "Bishopton")
![Looking west at the ROF Bishopton line branching off.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1934.jpg "Bishopton")
![Bishopton station viewed from the carpark. The building has been rebuilt since and many of these cars probably no longer exist.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1935.jpg "Bishopton")
![Paisley St James looking west. The station building (left) and goods yard (right) have both gone.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1941.jpg "Paisley St James")
![Looking east at Paisley St James with the station building and a Glasgow bound train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1942.jpg "Paisley St James")
![A class 27 passes east through Paisley St James. This was running light having probably taken empty molasses tanks to the James Watt dock in Greenock.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1943.jpg "Paisley St James")
![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 taken out. Note rails in centre left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1944.jpg "St James Junction")
![Looking east at Paisley St James. The sidings on the left are now lifted - and the goods yard ahead and to the left (out of sight).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1976.jpg "Paisley St James")
![Aerial view of Paisley St James, (former) Walkinshaw Junction the former goods yards and line running to Wallneuk Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7257.jpg "Paisley St James")
![The road in foreground was once the railway which extended to Cathcart Street before being cut back to the present Greenock Central station site on extension of the line to Gourock.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7354.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Eastbound from Langbank.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7388.jpg "Langbank")
![Greenock Harbour. Greenock Central is to the right and the quayside was reached via a ramp down from the station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7490.jpg "Greenock Harbour")
![On the approach to Langbank from the east. Viewed from east of Dumbarton.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7665.jpg "Langbank")
![This bridge carried the Caley branch to Inchgreen which served the James Watt Dock and Garvel Dock. Latterly it served the molasses depot in the docks.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8934.jpg "Inchgreen")
![42419 arriving at Greenock Central with a Glasgow service some time in the 1950s. Note the goods yard in the background which was formerly a BT depot [photographer unknown].<br><br>[Graham Morgan collection //]](/images/16000/16080.jpg "Greenock Central")
![The Greenock Railway Guaranteed Company was incorporated in 1851 when the Caledonian Railway took over the Greenock line. The company wound up in 1883. This is a Guaranteed share certificate of 1851 issued by the Greenock Railway Guaranteed Company.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1851]](/images/22000/22679.jpg "Greenock")
![Caledonian Pug 56028 at Ladyburn Shed in Greenock in June 1950. Photograph by J Davenport.<br><br>[Graham Morgan Collection /06/1950]](/images/19000/19816.jpg "Ladyburn Shed")
![Photograph by A C Roberts showing Fairburn 4P 42261, formerly LMS 2261, at Port Glasgow on 10th July 1954.<br><br>[Graham Morgan Collection 10/07/1954]](/images/17000/17054.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![47167 and 47168 at Ladyburn Shed in 1958.<br><br>[Graham Morgan collection 02/08/1958]](/images/13000/13650.jpg "Ladyburn Shed")
![Drummond Caledonian Pug 56035 photographed by Brian Hilton on shed at Ladyburn on 2nd August 1958.<br><br>[Graham Morgan Collection 02/08/1958]](/images/17000/17053.jpg "Ladyburn Shed")
![A McIntosh 2P 0-4-4T, no 55267, stands alongside the shed at Greenock Ladyburn, thought to have been photographed in 1960. The locomotive was withdrawn from 66D in October the following year and cut up at Arnott Young, Carmyle, in January of 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray //1960]](/images/23000/23903.jpg "Ladyburn")
![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. <br><br>[K A Gray //1960]](/images/23000/23952.jpg "Ladyburn")
![Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no 44011 stands on Ladyburn shed, Greenock, in the summer of 1960. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 31/08/1960]](/images/30000/30975.jpg "Ladyburn")
![View of Paisley St James looking towards Gilmour Street. End of a walk along the line from Barrhead South.<br><br>[John Robin 06/08/1963]](/images/9000/9043.jpg "Paisley St James")
![80109 approaching from Wemyss Bay. Wemyss Bay Junction.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 27/06/1964]](/images/7000/7626.jpg "Wemyss Bay Junction")
![Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80001 calls at Port Glasgow with a westbound service c 1965. Note the former footbridge and the bay platform that once handled Wemyss Bay services. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/22000/22579.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![A less than immaculate looking Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80001 pulls out of Port Glasgow with a westbound service c 1965. [With thanks to John Robin]<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/23000/23673.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![80027 skirts the Clyde near Langbank on 25 August 1965 with a Gourock - Glasgow local.<br><br>[G W Robin 25/08/1965]](/images/46000/46633.jpg "Langbank")
![Fairburn tank 42197 passes Langbank in 1965 with a Gourock to Glasgow Central express.<br><br>[G W Robin 26/08/1965]](/images/21000/21272.jpg "Langbank")
![Fairburn tank 42241 nears Langbank in August 1965 with the 5.43pm Glasgow to Gourock train.<br><br>[G W Robin 26/08/1965]](/images/21000/21277.jpg "Langbank")
![A Gourock - Glasgow Central semi-fast runs east alongside the Clyde at Langbank in August 1965. The locomotive is Polmadie Standard Class 5 4-6-0 no 73099. <br><br>[G W Robin 26/08/1965]](/images/47000/47912.jpg "Langbank")
![A grimy looking Fairburn 2-6-4 tank about to depart from Greenock Central with a Glasgow bound train on 27 August 1965.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/08/1965]](/images/21000/21281.jpg "Greenock Central")
![A Gourock bound BR standard class 4 2-6-4T ('Big Pug' according to a former engineman) heads west along the Clyde in fading light near West Ferry, between Bishopton Tunnel and Langbank, in February 1966. <br><br>[Colin Miller /02/1966]](/images/35000/35248.jpg "Bishopton Tunnel")
![A Gourock - Glasgow train heading east through Langbank in February 1966.<br><br>[Colin Miller /02/1966]](/images/46000/46566.jpg "Langbank")
![A Glasgow Central - Wemyss Bay DMU runs off Wallneuk Junction and into the platform at Paisley Gilmour Street station in July 1966.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1966]](/images/28000/28314.jpg "Paisley Gilmour Street")
![The 16.56 SX Glasgow Central - Gourock (behind an EE Type 3 recently transferred from Western Region) stands at Bishopton in September 1966.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /09/1966]](/images/22000/22396.jpg "Bishopton")
![BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73072 with a Glasgow Central - Wemyss Bay train alongside the south bank of Clyde near West Ferry in September 1966. The train has just cleared Bishopton Tunnel and is making for Langbank.<br><br>[Colin Miller /09/1966]](/images/29000/29265.jpg "Bishopton Tunnel")
![The 16.56 SX Glasgow Central - Gourock service arriving at Bishopton in September 1966. Note the ex-Caledonian signal box, then still in operation.<br><br>[Colin Miller /09/1966]](/images/33000/33143.jpg "Bishopton")
![The 16.22 (SX) Bishopton - Glasgow Central leaves Bishopton in the spring of 1967 behind 73059. This was the Royal Ordnance Factory workmen's train. The stock arrived as ECS and lay over in a siding until departure time. The train stopped only at Paisley St James and Gilmour Street, arriving at Glasgow Central at 16.47. It ceased when electric services commenced.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1967]](/images/29000/29881.jpg "Bishopton")
![The 0840 Glasgow Central - Wemyss Bay passing Bishopton on 5 June 1967, the first day of the new electric services.<br><br>[Colin Miller 05/06/1967]](/images/22000/22139.jpg "Bishopton")
![First day of electric services. The 14.35 Wemyss Bay to Glasgow Central seen shortly after passing through Bishopton non-stop on 5 June 1967.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 05/06/1967]](/images/30000/30530.jpg "Bishopton")
![311102 drawing into Port Glasgow with a service for Glasgow Central, sometime in 1980. Note the old footbridge still in place to the left. This provided access to the station and crossed the bay platform once used by Wemyss Bay trains. [See image 22579]<br><br>[Graham Morgan Collection //1980]](/images/40000/40213.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![Heading east at Georgetown. No access at the time beyond this fence as it was MOD property.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7928.jpg "Georgetown")
![Paisley Underwood. Beardmore once built Taxis nearby. The depot was used by Spillers and Shanks at various stages. Now lifted and gone.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7997.jpg "Paisley Underwood")
![In 1987, before refurbishment by Railtrack, Greenock Central still featured a large glazed roof over the circulating area. The Gourock Extension platforms had canopies over them but not an overall roof, this having been cut back at an earlier date. The photograph was taken from the end of what must be one of the shortest platforms in the country. The view looks west with the Gourock platforms on the far left. Before the opening of the Gourock Extension the terminal platforms continued to a station on Cathcart Street, serving transatlantic ships via East Quay Lane. The circulating area shown here is now a car park. The Greenock Railway's locomotive shed and works was originally located in the area occupied by the Gourock platforms, resulting in the establishment of Greenock Ladyburn shed as a replacement.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/09/1987]](/images/32000/32331.jpg "Greenock Central")
![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 sometimes used for train arrivals.//16472,16476,16474,16475,16455,16477<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/16000/16472.jpg "Ladyburn")
![<I>Go on son, you drive it out. We cant be bothered</i>. 26 with molasses tanks at the United Molasses Depot, James Watt Dock.//16472,16476,16474,16475,16455,16477<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/16000/16474.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![Squeal, grind, squeal. 26 comes slowly out of the Ladyburn sidings with a molasses train from James Watt Dock. View from Bogston station.//16472,16476,16474,16475,16455,16477<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/16000/16475.jpg "Bogston")
![Finally free of the sidings, a molasses train from James Watt Dock accelerates east through Bogston on the way to Menstrie. Any grain wagons for Cambus will be added at Stirling.//16472,16476,16474,16475,16455,16477<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/16000/16477.jpg "Bogston")
![A TTA with a buckled spring sits in the dockside siding used for 'cripples' from the United Molasses depot.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/54000/54245.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![Cab of 26040 at the James Watt Dock during shunting of molasses in 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/57000/57703.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![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. This short branch was awkward for a number of reasons; there was a steep gradient, a tight 180 degree curve, reversal to reach the loading area (okay, not inconvenient for arriving trains) and gravity shunting was required to allow the locomotive to round loaded trains as there was no loop. Also the track was beginning to go a bit 'square' on the curve as can be seen here. The locomotive had just crossed the (now) recently (25/09/2010) removed bridge over the A8.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /05/1989]](/images/30000/30845.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![Indulging in a little gravity shunting at the James Watt Dock, Greenock in 1988. The train has drawn out of the United Molasses depot and then reversed up the tight curve towards Ladyburn. Then brakes applied. Loco comes off and runs back into James Watt dock sidings by the molasses depot. Train is dropped downhill past the points and locomotive then joins train for the second trip up to Ladyburn, this time at the other end. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford 09/05/1989]](/images/42000/42723.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![Turning on a really big tap at the James Watt Dock. 26040 at the United Molasses depot in 1989. That's a TTA to the right and a TTB to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/09/1989]](/images/28000/28181.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![318267 with a Gourock train standing alongside 318268 heading for Glasgow Central. Scene at the east end of Greenock Central station in 1990.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1990]](/images/52000/52355.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Lord of the Isles at the James Watt Dock in 1994. The lines in the foreground were served, following a reversal, by the branch from Bogston.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1994]](/images/55000/55450.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![Part of Greenock Central station in 1996 - just after removal of the overall roof but prior to demolition of the station buildings. [See image 32331]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/42000/42228.jpg "Greenock Central")
![This footbridge linked the two portions of Bogle Street which were split by the construction of Greenock Central station, behind the large stone wall to the left. Straight ahead was the extensive goods yard. This photograph was taken during the reconstruction of Greenock Central in 1996, which largely consisted of the demolition of the remaining portion of the overall roof and the neighbouring station buildings. A much smaller station building was provided at the same time and the entry arches retained.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/52000/52783.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Pre-electronic departure information at Port Glasgow in July 1997. <br>
These were operated by station staff simply flicking an on-off switch on a panel, one for each station. As this was an all stations service Woodhall and Hillington East should also have been lit up, as well as of course the Paisley above '(St James)'. The remaining gap, after Cardonald, can surely only have been occupied by Ibrox, being the last intermediate station before Glasgow Central to close, 30 years before this photograph and a year after the closure of Shields Road in 1966. Thus we can date this specimen pretty accurately.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton /07/1997]](/images/28000/28521.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![303 088, westbound with a Gourock service, calls at Greenock Central in July 1997.<br><br>[David Panton 15/07/1997]](/images/20000/20432.jpg "Greenock Central")
![303 106 with a Glasgow train at Bishopton in June 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /6/1998]](/images/16000/16770.jpg "Bishopton")
![This view shows a Class 314 approaching Greenock Central with the Gourock train.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 10/06/2004]](/images/10000/10119.jpg "Greenock Central")
![The surviving arched entrance to Greenock Central from Station Avenue in July 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2005]](/images/4000/4647.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Greenock Central - looking west - July 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2005]](/images/4000/4683.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Looking across the bay platform at Greenock Central in the summer of 2005 as a train from Glasgow Central arrives at the station en route to Gourock.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2005]](/images/4000/4724.jpg "Greenock Central")
![A Gourock - Glasgow Central service arriving at Greenock Central in July 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2005]](/images/6000/6099.jpg "Greenock Central")
![A surviving castellated tower at the north east corner of Greenock Central that once provided part of the support for the former station roof (note the 'slot' in the wall). Photographed in July 2005 looking out across the station's east end bay with another famous Clydeside structure standing on the horizon.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2005]](/images/21000/21301.jpg "Greenock Central")
![A mid-morning Gourock - Glasgow Central service leaves platform 1 of Greenock Central on 29 July 2005. Note the surviving supporting walls from the original overall roof, complete with castellated turrets at the east end [see image 21301]. The old bay platform is to the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2005]](/images/44000/44968.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Bishopton Cutting and tunnels were cut into solid whinstone rock which delayed the opening of the line by 7 months. View looks west with a backdrop of the River Clyde and Dumbarton Castle.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/2007]](/images/12000/12946.jpg "Bishopton")
![Glasgow bound train at Langbank. No trace remains of the station building I saw on my last visit. A (cough) few years ago.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/2007]](/images/12000/12947.jpg "Langbank")
![A ruined van stood alongside the west end of the disused exchange yard at Bishopton in 2007. The view looks towards the junction with the yard to the left of the van.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/2007]](/images/59000/59826.jpg "Bishopton")
![A Class 334 approaching Cartsdyke passes the location of Ladyburn Shed in Greenock.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 20/01/2007]](/images/13000/13763.jpg "Ladyburn")
![Tour on its way back from Gourock approaching Langbank.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/02/2007]](/images/13000/13558.jpg "Langbank")
![Sunday morning 29 April looking west along the platforms at Langbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel /04/2007]](/images/14000/14809.jpg "Langbank")
![<I>Come on up!</I> Passenger entrance ramp to eastbound platform at Port Glasgow. April 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel /04/2007]](/images/15000/15747.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![Someone else who appears to have had a heavy Saturday night! Early Sunday morning scene on the westbound platform at Port Glasgow, as a precariously perched young lady nods off awaiting the first Stage west out of Dodge - in this case the 07.52 Sunday service to Gourock.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14808.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![Sunday morning 29 April 2007 at Langbank station. Main entrance, looking south from the B789.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14810.jpg "Langbank")
![Entrance to Port Glasgow station from the junction of Princes Street and Station Road in April 2007. The ramp up to the eastbound platform and footbridge is to the right at the top of the steps. [See image 54919]<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14815.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![Panorama south over the footbridge at Bogston station in April 2007. The Gourock and Wemyss Bay lines approach from Wemyss Bay Junction (off to the left) with the former running through the platforms below and the latter via the embankment crossing the bridge directly ahead. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14816.jpg "Bogston")
![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 about to run through Wemyss Bay Junction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14817.jpg "Wemyss Bay Junction")
![A Glasgow bound service arriving at Bishopton on 29 April 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14826.jpg "Bishopton")
![Station building on the eastbound platform at Bishopton. April 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14827.jpg "Bishopton")
![Looking west along the platform at Port Glasgow station on 29 April 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14871.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![A station with lots of character (and characters). View east along the platforms at Port Glasgow. April 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14872.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![Looking west over Port Glasgow station on 29 April 2007 from the short-cut to Springhill Road. The main station entrance is located on Princes Street, lower right and gives access to a ramp leading up to platform level. [See image 14815]<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14873.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![View towards Gourock from the top of the stairway linking the westbound platform and the overbridge at Bogston in April 2007. The A8 runs parallel with the line at a lower level beyond the trees on the right, with a bus stop located alongside a walkway leading up to the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/15000/15207.jpg "Bogston")
![The bridge that carried the Caledonian route from Ladyburn Junction across the A8 at Greenock and into James Watt Dock. View west on 29 April 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/15000/15506.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![Part of the westbound platform at Port Glasgow in April 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/15000/15536.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![View from the footbridge towards Glasgow in April 2007. A train for Wemyss Bay has recently arrived at platform 2.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/15000/15541.jpg "Bishopton")
![Early morning sunshine on Port Glasgow. View west over the station on Sunday 29 April 2007. The main station entrance from Princes Street can just be seen centre right. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/15000/15551.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![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 west of Port Glasgow. The train has another 10 miles or so to run to its ultimate destination. The line on the right continues west towards Gourock.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/43000/43329.jpg "Wemyss Bay Junction")
![The north end of Bishopton station in April 2007, with a train leaving for Gourock. The overgrown line running off to the left accessed the former Royal Ordnance Factory. The 2,500 acre location, which employed 20,000 workers at its peak, had its own fleet of diesel locomotives operating over 20 miles of private track. Part of the huge abandoned site is currently earmarked for housing and other developments.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/46000/46767.jpg "Bishopton")
![Looking east along the A8 in Greenock towards Glasgow in April 2007, showing the lengthy Caledonian Railway bridge that carried the line over the road and into James Watt Dock on the left. [See image 15506] <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/52000/52663.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![Exit from the Glasgow bound platform 1 at Port Glasgow station in April 2007. View is down the ramp towards Princes Street. The footbridge to the westbound platform is on the right. [See image 14815]<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/54000/54919.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![The stately old booking office alongside the eastbound platform at Bishopton in April 2007, seen from the car park.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/55000/55081.jpg "Bishopton")
![Scene at Bogston station in April 2007 looking towards the south entrance from Shankland Road. The bridge and embankment running across the picture carry the single line of the Wemyss Bay branch, while the overbridge from which the photograph is taken spans the station platforms, located on the Gourock branch [see image 15207]. There are no parking facilities here, but a bus stop is provided alongside the A8, which runs past the northern entrance to station at a lower level behind the camera. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/04/2007]](/images/61000/61577.jpg "Bogston")
![Platform view west at Paisley St James on 20 May 2007, looking towards Bishopton.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2007]](/images/15000/15544.jpg "Paisley St James")
![334014 approaching Cartsdyke with a service from Gourock bound for Glasgow Central<br><br>[Graham Morgan 23/05/2007]](/images/15000/15325.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![Cartsdyke station looking east towards Port Glasgow<br><br>[Graham Morgan 23/05/2007]](/images/15000/15326.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![314215 approaching Cartsdyke with a service for Gourock<br><br>[Graham Morgan 23/05/2007]](/images/15000/15328.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![314215 departing Cartsdyke heading west, next stop Greenock Central<br><br>[Graham Morgan 23/05/2007]](/images/15000/15331.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![Glasgow bound service standing at Bishopton on 17 July.<br><br>[David Panton 17/07/2007]](/images/15000/15882.jpg "Bishopton")
![Early Sunday morning sunshine over Cartsdyke station on 29 July. View north towards the Clyde.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2007]](/images/16000/16034.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![View across the platforms at Woodhall station early on a Sunday morning in July 2007. Outside the station entrance on Glasgow Road a solitary passenger can be seen utilising the interchange facilities (formerly <I>waiting for a bus</I>).<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2007]](/images/16000/16046.jpg "Woodhall")
![Scene at Cartsdyke station on 29 July 2007 - looking northwest across the tracks to <br>
the Glasgow platform. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2007]](/images/16000/16086.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![Early Sunday morning at Cartsdyke in July 2007, with a Glasgow bound train pulling away from the station. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2007]](/images/16000/16087.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![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. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2007]](/images/17000/17751.jpg "Woodhall")
![Looking west towards the site of Ladyburn Shed, this view shows the trackbed that connected the goods yard at Bogston with the main line and James Watt Dock<br><br>[Graham Morgan /08/2007]](/images/16000/16466.jpg "Bogston")
![334008 pulls into Cartsdyke station on a service to Glasgow Central on 4 August 2007.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 04/08/2007]](/images/16000/16249.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![318262 about to pass through Cartsdyke with a fast train bound for Gourock.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 04/08/2007]](/images/16000/16256.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![Looking south east to the west of Bogston station, this shows from top to bottom, the Weymss Bay line, the location of the Inchgreen branch (centre), the Glasgow - Gourock line, James Watt Dock connection and the Bogston goods yard line (foreground)<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/08/2007]](/images/16000/16454.jpg "Bogston")
![Looking east to Bogston station, this is where the goods yard at Bogston connected to the mineral sidings and James Watt Dock connection at Ladyburn.//16472,16476,16474,16475,16455,16477<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/08/2007]](/images/16000/16455.jpg "Bogston")
![Looking east to Bogston station. The Inchgreen branch crossed the line here from the right, and to the left is the James Watt Dock mainline connection. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/08/2007]](/images/16000/16456.jpg "Bogston")
![Looking west towards to the site of Ladyburn Shed. The sheds and stores were at this location, the shed closing in 1966<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/08/2007]](/images/16000/16473.jpg "Ladyburn Shed")
![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 Watt Dock to the right.//16472,16476,16474,16475,16455,16477<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/08/2007]](/images/16000/16476.jpg "Ladyburn Shed")
![334030 departing from Greenock Central on a service to Gourock on 11 September.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 11/09/2007]](/images/16000/16857.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Looking East from Greenock Central towards Port Glasgow.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 11/09/2007]](/images/16000/16858.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Remains of a roof beam support buried in the wall at Greenock Central. The station had a glazed roof at one time, but it was allowed to deteriorate before finally being demolished by Railtrack as part of the so called refurbishment of the station.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 11/09/2007]](/images/16000/16859.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Lead flashing in the wall at Greenock Central showing where the former roof of the station met the wall.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 11/09/2007]](/images/16000/16860.jpg "Greenock Central")
![The bricked up entrance in the wall at Greenock Central to the right shows where a pedestrian bridge at one time crossed over the station, along with still intact bridge number and roof beam support.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 11/09/2007]](/images/16000/16861.jpg "Greenock Central")
![The tunnel at Greenock Central that was dug out to form part of the Gourock extension by the Caledonian Railway. Looking West.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 11/09/2007]](/images/16000/16862.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Terrace Road entrance at Greenock Central seen from the platform 2 stairway. This entrance was once covered, with the original doorway the nearer of the two openings.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 11/09/2007]](/images/16000/16871.jpg "Greenock Central")
![View North at Greenock Central showing the location of the bridge that once connected the two through platforms and where, along the north end of the car park, various buildings and offices were once located. These were all swept away during the station refurbishment.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 11/09/2007]](/images/16000/16872.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Entrance to Greenock Central Platform 2 from Terrace Road in September 2007.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 11/09/2007]](/images/16000/16873.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Looking east over the site of the former goods yard at Greenock Central. The yard ran as far as the camera position. Now empty, its most recent use was as a BT depot.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 11/09/2007]](/images/16000/16874.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Glasgow Central bound 334004 passing through Cartsdyke on 14th January<br><br>[Graham Morgan 14/01/2008]](/images/17000/17728.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![Westbound service entering Paisley St James. The junction for Glasgow Airport will be behind the train, just shy of the current station with the line running off to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/05/2008]](/images/19000/19021.jpg "Paisley St James")
![A Gourock - Glasgow Central service formed by 334 040 makes a stop at Paisley St James on 28 July. This station is to be eventually closed and a replacement built further east as part of the changes resulting from construction of the Glasgow Airport Rail Link. [See image 30523]<br><br>[David Panton 28/07/2008]](/images/20000/20078.jpg "Paisley St James")
![A Gourock - Glasgow Central service pulls into Port Glasgow on 15 October 2008 formed by 314 210.<br><br>[David Panton 15/10/2008]](/images/21000/21078.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![334 016 leaves Fort Matilda on 15 October 2008 on the final leg of its journey from Glasgow Central to Gourock. <br><br>[David Panton 15/10/2008]](/images/21000/21082.jpg "Fort Matilda")
![334 015 draws into Langbank on 15 October with an all stations Glasgow-Gourock service.<br><br>[David Panton 15/10/2008]](/images/21000/21101.jpg "Langbank")
![334 017 for Gourock arrives at Port Glasgow on 15 October.<br><br>[David Panton 15/10/2008]](/images/21000/21142.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![Eastbound 334 017 arriving at Cartsdyke on 1 November 2008 with a service for Glasgow Central.<br><br>[David Panton 01/11/2008]](/images/21000/21313.jpg "Cartsdyke")
![Eastbound arrival at Greenock Central on 1 November 2008, with 334 032 forming a Gourock - Glasgow Central service.<br><br>[David Panton 01/11/2008]](/images/21000/21358.jpg "Greenock Central")
![While the tracks on the Bogston - James Watt Dock branch have gone the bridge over the busy A8 continues to earn its keep. View west towards Gourock on 12 November 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 12/11/2008]](/images/21000/21461.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![There's no visible progress at Paisley St James on the GARL project as at the end of March. The new line will cross Greenhill Road by a second bridge, beyond this one, before turning north over the playing fields and M8 motorway to approach the Airport. View looks north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/03/2009]](/images/23000/23081.jpg "Paisley St James")
![334 017 pulls into Woodhall with a Gourock to Glasgow stopper on 29 April 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 29/04/2009]](/images/23000/23488.jpg "Woodhall")
![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.<br><br>[David Panton 29/04/2009]](/images/23000/23773.jpg "Woodhall")
![<I>There's no answer to that...</I> ..a revolution in door technology at Bishopton, 6 May 2009. <br><br>[David Panton 06/05/2009]](/images/23000/23622.jpg "Bishopton")
![334 026 leaves Bishopton for Gourock on 6 May 2009. <br><br>[David Panton 06/05/2009]](/images/23000/23653.jpg "Bishopton")
![Looking North to the viaduct in the James Watt Dock. This runs off the bridge crossing the Port Glasgow Road (see image 15506, 21461 and 15533). This took the line from the Ladyburn sidings, in amongst the trees to the bottom left, into the James Watt Dock's sidings and United Molasses terminal.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 23/05/2009]](/images/23000/23857.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![314 209 on a Wemyss Bay service awaits departure from Bishopton on 31 May.<br>
<br><br>[John Steven 31/05/2009]](/images/23000/23928.jpg "Bishopton")
![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 the leafiness depicted here is deceptive.<br><br>[David Panton 01/06/2009]](/images/23000/23940.jpg "Bogston")
![Looking South to Greenock Central showing the goods line that left the main line at Greenock Central and went down to the street level goods station at Bogle Street and Chapel Street that stood on the site now occupied by Morrison's superstore and car park.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 29/06/2009]](/images/24000/24691.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Fares chart issued by the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway in April 1846.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 22/09/2009]](/images/24000/24292.jpg "Plates, signs and notices")
![Main entrance to Port Glasgow station from the junction of Station Road ad Princes Street seen on 2 April 2010.<br><br>[Veronica Inglis 02/04/2010]](/images/28000/28367.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![Platform view east at Port Glasgow on 2 April 2010.<br><br>[Veronica Inglis 02/04/2010]](/images/28000/28385.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![A Class 334 unit running along the embankment next to the M8 directly opposite Glasgow Airport with a service for Gourock. In the bottom right hand corner of shot is railway viaduct at Ferguslie carrying the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway. In the centre bottom of shot is Ferguslie Station on the Paisley & Barrhead District Railway, with the line of trees that runs to the centre right showing the trackbed of the PBDR that ran to Paisley St. James. The housing at the bottom left stands on the site once occupied by the Pressed Steel plant and Chrysler car factory.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 07/04/2010]](/images/28000/28589.jpg "Paisley St James")
![The viaduct at James Watt Dock, as seen from the A8 on 9 April 2010. The old viaduct is slated for demolition if plans for the development of new housing and business accommodation at the James Watt Dock receive approval.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/04/2010]](/images/28000/28583.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![Paisley St James station was to have been moved under the proposed <br>
Glasgow Airport Rail Link. This has of course been shelved and St James is going nowhere, but it is currently having a makeover big enough for it to be closed for 10 weeks over the summer. It is difficult to see what is going on, but nothing obvious has changed yet except that while the other signage still has the SPT logo the street-entrance sign has already been replaced, as can be seen here on 16 June. <br><br>[David Panton 16/06/2010]](/images/29000/29416.jpg "Paisley St James")
![334 011 with a Gourock stopper at Bishopton on 14 July 2010<br><br>[David Panton 14/07/2010]](/images/29000/29844.jpg "Bishopton")
![Paisley St James has recently reopened after a two-and-a-half month <br>
closure for refurbishment. 334 002 stands with a Gourock to Glasgow <br>
stopping service on 1 September as a semi-fast, which didn't stop, <br>
retreats. [See image 20078 for a comparison.] <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 01/09/2010]](/images/30000/30523.jpg "Paisley St James")
![Wemyss Bay Junction is one of those junctions named after the place <br>
they're the junction for, rather than where they are situated; Wemyss Bay station is 10 miles away from the evocatively named junction which is in a workaday location between Port Glasgow and Bogston or Whinhill stations. On 1 September 334 029 comes off the branch heading for Glasgow Central. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 01/09/2010]](/images/30000/30550.jpg "Wemyss Bay Junction")
![314 208 approaches Port Glasgow with a Gourock to Glasgow service on 1 September 2010<br><br>[David Panton 01/09/2010]](/images/30000/30742.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![A Gourock bound 314213 calls at Langbank on a stopping train from Glasgow Central. This station overlooks the Clyde Estuary, more or less opposite Dumbarton on the north side.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/12/2010]](/images/32000/32100.jpg "Langbank")
![Oh dear, all gone. This was the site of the molasses depot in Greenock's James Watt Dock. Not only has the bridge over the A8 been removed but also the viaduct arches running into the dock area. [See image 16474] for the same viewpoint in 1988.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 05/03/2011]](/images/33000/33087.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![The remains of the branch to Victoria Harbour running east along Greenock's truncated Arthur Street in March 2011. After passing under the distant arch the line ran parallel to the main line (where there was a yard) before joining it. In the East India Harbour this line was joined by another branch, approached by reversal, from Greenock Central.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 05/03/2011]](/images/33000/33096.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Looking east along the little used bay platforms at Greenock Central on 2nd April 2011<br><br>[Graham Morgan 02/04/2011]](/images/33000/33873.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Information panels and signal at the mouth of Wellpark Tunnel, Greenock Central, April 2011.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 02/04/2011]](/images/33000/33878.jpg "Greenock Central")
![318251 at Greenock Central on 2 April with a Glasgow - Gourock train.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 02/04/2011]](/images/33000/33883.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Two for the price of one! View north over the site of Greenock Ladyburn shed towards the Clyde on 6 June 2011, with a class 380 passing along the bottom of the picture on a Gourock - Glasgow Central service. The particularly sharp eyed may notice a second train in the photograph on the north bank, where a Class 334 has just left Craigendoran on its way from Helensburgh to Edinburgh Waverley.<br>
<br><br>[Graham Morgan 06/06/2011]](/images/34000/34502.jpg "Ladyburn")
![This station has probably never seen so many passengers!! The tall ships event at Greenock brings countless passengers to this normally quiet station. As a 6 car special waits to depart for Gourock, passengers Glasgow bound wait patiently in the late afternoon sun<br><br>[Colin Harkins 09/07/2011]](/images/34000/34797.jpg "Bogston")
![One of the few remaining traces of the dock railways at Albert / Victoria Harbours, Greenock, on 27 October 2011. A far cry from the fondly-remembered days of 'Beetlecrushers' and Fowler Dock Tanks.<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/10/2011]](/images/36000/36244.jpg "Greenock")
![380 013 draws to a stop at Bishopton with a Glasgow bound service on 27 November.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/11/2011]](/images/36000/36622.jpg "Bishopton")
![A view looking west in November 2011 showing the relatively recently lifted line at Bishopton which curved round the north side of the works. Taken from the level crossing.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/11/2011]](/images/36000/36625.jpg "Bishopton")
![Re-signalling at Bishopton from P55 to GP62. These signals are located at the western end of the station. The replacement does not appear, at first sight, to support the disused former branch line and yard here. The disused line to the yard can be seen to the left behind the signals.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/11/2011]](/images/36000/36629.jpg "Bishopton")
![A train from Gourock to Glasgow Central calls at Port Glasgow 1 June 2012 in some welcome sunshine.<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/06/2012]](/images/39000/39378.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![HMP Greenock in partnership with New College Lanarkshire has adopted Greenock Central Station with this display of colourful artwork.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 11/07/2014]](/images/47000/47962.jpg "Greenock Central")
![Station staff members Barry Limbert and Elaine Phillips with the restored Hood's Well at Port Glasgow Station. The public fountain dates from 1843 when James Hood, the first stationmaster at Port Glasgow (opened 1841), retired - this being his choice of retirement gift. The well was re-discovered during vegetation clearance in 2001.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 06/11/2015]](/images/53000/53167.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![Westbound 380006 draws to a stop at Bishopton.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/07/2016]](/images/55000/55778.jpg "Bishopton")
![TSS Queen Mary [II] in Greenock's James Watt Dock. Awaiting her future …<br><br>[Colin Martin 24/08/2016]](/images/56000/56370.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![TSS Queen Mary [II] in Greenock's James Watt Dock on the 24th of August 2016. The view looks east.<br><br>[Colin Martin 24/08/2016]](/images/56000/56395.jpg "James Watt Dock")
![New Port Glasgow murals funded by ScotRail and Riverside Inverclyde.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 25/10/2016]](/images/57000/57004.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![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 the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway line. The viaduct was 480 feet long and 100 feet high. On the 31st of October 1970 the viaduct was brought down with explosives.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 25/10/2016]](/images/57000/57015.jpg "Port Glasgow")
![380015 departs from Bishopton heading to Glasgow on 27 April 2017.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/04/2017]](/images/59000/59165.jpg "Bishopton")
![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 heading to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/04/2017]](/images/59000/59192.jpg "Bishopton")
![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 from the top of Dumbarton Castle on 3rd August 2017. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 03/08/2017]](/images/60000/60587.jpg "Langbank")
![Class 380 westbound and just east of Greenock Central. I've been past this bridge so many times without taking a photograph ... until now.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60697.jpg "Greenock Central")
![380 101 approaches with a service from Gourock. To the left was the branch to ROF Bishopton; the junction has been removed but some track remains in the trees. 20 October.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/10/2017]](/images/61000/61561.jpg "Bishopton")
![Carmine and cream-liveried 314213 at Bishopton on a service to Gourock.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/10/2017]](/images/61000/61630.jpg "Bishopton")
![314204 calls with a service to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/10/2017]](/images/61000/61714.jpg "Bishopton")
![380004 calls at Langbank with a Gourock train on 23rd October 2017. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/10/2017]](/images/61000/61735.jpg "Langbank")
![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 the A8.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/11/2017]](/images/61000/61767.jpg "Langbank")
![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.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/11/2017]](/images/61000/61915.jpg "Port Glasgow")
