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Polloc And Govan Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Polmadie depot seen from the west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/764.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Aerial view of Rutherglen looking east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7176.jpg "Rutherglen")
![Aerial view of Polmadie Depot looking east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7256.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Aerial view of the former South Side station (centre) later the Gushetfaulds container depot. Eglinton Street station was bottom left, Gorbals Junction top left and Larkfield Junction is bottom right. Clearly a Rutherglen to Gorbals spur could be put in.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7268.jpg "South Side")
![Aerial view of Glasgows South Side looking east. Smithy Lye (bottom centre), Eglinton Street (centre), Gushetfaulds (top right), Central approach (centre left) and St Enoch approach (top left).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7269.jpg "Shields Road")
![Fowler Mogul 2752.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 31/05/1947]](/images/15000/15585.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![C.R. 0.6.0 17320 (Ex CR).<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 31/05/1947]](/images/15000/15604.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![C.R. 0.6.0T 16307.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 31/05/1947]](/images/15000/15605.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![LMS Royal Scot Type 6155.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 31/05/1947]](/images/15000/15606.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 57603 passing West Street Junction on 29 March 1956 with an eastbound goods train on the approach from Terminus Junction. To the right is the remains of the 1840 P&G route to Windmillcroft Quay, a replacement for the Govan Waggonway of the 1770s. [Ref query 630] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/03/1956]](/images/57000/57936.jpg "West Street Junction")
![Looking north towards Windmillcroft at the Tradeston Refuse Destructor in March 1956. To the left is the Tradeston Gasworks No 3 and off to the right is the Caledonian's West Street Goods.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/03/1956]](/images/58000/58208.jpg "Tradeston Refuse Destructor")
!['Crab' 2-6-0 no 42735 of Hamilton West shed photographed at West Street Junction with an up freight on 29 March 1956.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/03/1956]](/images/58000/58296.jpg "West Street Junction")
![The former route to Windmillcroft Quay was cut back to West Street a few years<br>
after the opening of General Terminus. This view looks north not far<br>
from the buffers in March 1956. [See image 57936] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/03/1956]](/images/58000/58571.jpg "West Street")
![10001/0 on down 'Royal Scot'. Larkfield Junction. 17.05.1957<br>
<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/05/1957]](/images/24000/24934.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![Ex-Caledonian <I>Beetle Crusher</I> 56154, one of the sturdy McIntosh 2F 0-6-0T (original 498 Dock Class) locomotives, stands in the sidings at the Rutherglen end of Polmadie shed, probably in 1959. The locomotive was withdrawn from Polmadie in June of that year and cut up at Cowlairs Works 5 months later. [With thanks to John Robin]<br>
<br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/23000/23739.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![The MetroVick Co-Bo - one of the small group of <I>BR modernisation plan</I> diesels that will be remembered by many enthusiasts of a certain age for one positive contribution, namely extending the life of the steam locomotive. D5712 peeps out from Polmadie shed in March 1959, having brought the overnight <I>CONDOR</I> container service from Hendon into Gushetfaulds. Notwithstanding this singular success, the overall performance and reliability of these locomotives was such that the new, high-profile <I>CONDOR</I> (CONtainer Door to doOR) service was forced to revert to steam haulage a short time after this photograph was taken. The MetroVicks were all withdrawn by 1968, clocking up an average lifespan of under 10 years.<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/03/1959]](/images/24000/24462.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Metrovick diesels D5709+D5705 stand in the yard at Polmadie on 16 May 1959, having brought in the overnight Hendon-Gushetfaults <I>Condor</I> freight service.<br>
<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/26000/26895.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80003 stands alongside a number of other locomotives in the busy shed yard at Polmadie in May 1959. [Editors note: The hazy atmosphere and angle of the sun seem to have conspired to produce an image reminiscent of a Terence Cuneo painting!]<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/27000/27014.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Pride of Polmadie. Stanier <I>Coronation</I> Pacific no 46232 <I>Duchess of Montrose</I>, about to pass her home shed with the up <I>Mid-Day Scot</I> shortly after leaving Glasgow Central on 16 May 1959. In the background stands the ironworks founded in 1837 by William Dixon, which became known to Glaswegians as <i>Dixon's Blazes</i> due to the blast furnaces lighting up the city skyline day and night. Production ceased the year before this photograph was taken, since when the area has been substantially redeveloped. <br>
<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/27000/27098.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45702 <I>Colossus</I> in the shed yard at Polmadie in May 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/27000/27230.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80129 has just moved off Polmadie shed on its way to Glasgow Central to pick up empty stock in May 1959. The locomotive is about to pass 'Dixon's Blazes', site of the last operational blast furnace within the City of Glasgow, closed down the previous year. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/27000/27469.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![BR Standard Pacific no 72000 <I>Clan Buchanan</I> on shed at Polmadie in May 1959. [Railscot note: A project to build the next 'Clan' in the series, no 72010 <I>Hengist</I>, is currently (February 2010) being undertaken by the Standard Steam Locomotive Co.] <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/27000/27489.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42165 stands in the shed yard at Polmadie in May 1959. In addition to the steam locomotives on shed at the time, a pair of early Metrovick diesels can be seen in the right background. The pair (D5709+D5705) had worked into Gushetfaulds that morning on the overnight <i>Condor</i> container train from Hendon.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/32000/32205.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![The short-lived BR Standard Pacific no 72000 <I>Clan Buchanan</I>, photographed in the shed yard at Polmadie in May 1959. Built at Crewe in 1951, withdrawn from Polmadie in 1962, cut up at Darlington in 1963.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/33000/33440.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![A May evening at Polmadie shed in 1959. BR Standard 'Clan' Pacific no 72008 <I>Clan MacLeod</I> stands nearest the camera with tank locomotives 42144 and 80003 on the shed roads in the background. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/34000/34625.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Clan Pacific no 72008 <I>Clan MacLeod</I> stands outside Polmadie shed in May 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/36000/36231.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Metrovick Co-Bo D5709 at Polmadie in May 1959 having brought in the overnight <I>'Condor'</I> freight service in conjunction with classmate D5705.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/37000/37183.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![McIntosh ex-Caledonian 3F 0-6-0 no 57625 photographed in the summer of 1959 on Polmadie shed. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/37000/37185.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![A busy scene in the yard at Polmadie on 16 May 1959. Standing in the centre of the picture is home based Royal Scot 4-6-0 no 46105 <I>Cameron Highlander</I>.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/37000/37218.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80001 photographed on 16 May 1959 in the shed yard at 66A Polmadie.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/37000/37324.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Locomotive lineup in the shed yard at Polmadie on 16 May 1959 includes Metropolitan - Vickers Type 2 locomotives (BR Class 28) D5705 and D5709, with Standard Pacific 72000 <I>'Clan Buchanan'</I> and Standard class 4 2-6-4T 80085 standing beyond. D5705 has since been preserved and can be seen on the East Lancashire Railway [see image 18211].<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1959]](/images/37000/37348.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![A Saturday afternoon view of Polmadie shed in late September 1959. Home-based Stanier Pacific no 46201 <I>Princess Elizabeth</I> stands centre stage. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/08/1959]](/images/38000/38641.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![On shed at Polmadie.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/09/1959]](/images/29000/29123.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![A pair of neglected looking Caley Jumbos, nos 57418 and 57369, standing in Polmadie shed yard in September 1959. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/09/1959]](/images/29000/29260.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Royal Scot 4-6-0 no 46105 <I>Cameron Highlander</I> stands on Polmadie shed in September 1959. The locomotive was withdrawn from here at the end of 1962.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/09/1959]](/images/29000/29719.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![McIntosh 3F 0-6-0T no 56239 photographed in a corner of Polmadie shed in the autumn of 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/09/1959]](/images/29000/29935.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Royal Scot no 46105 <I>Cameron Highlander</I> in the shed yard at Polmadie in September 1959. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/09/1959]](/images/31000/31973.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45635 <I>Tobago</I> in the yard at Polmadie in September 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/09/1959]](/images/32000/32518.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Smart looking Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42143 photographed on Polmadie shed in September 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/09/1959]](/images/36000/36961.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Lineup of diesel shunting locomotives on Polmadie shed in September 1959 with D3529 nearest the camera.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/09/1959]](/images/38000/38636.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Stanier 'Coronation' Pacific no 46243 <I>City of Lancaster</I> of Crewe North shed being prepared to work back south at Polmadie depot on 26 September 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/09/1959]](/images/38000/38649.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![One of the 1958 MetroVick Co-Bo diesels stands at Polmadie c 1960 having worked in on the overnight <I>Condor</I> to Gushetfaulds. The nightly London - Glasgow container service was introduced in 1959 (its name having been derived from the words CONtainer Door to doOR) and was initially (and unfortunately) assigned to these particular locomotives. Notoriously unreliable from the outset, the Co-Bos were eventually consigned to Barrow shed where they ended their days on local passenger and freight duties until finally withdrawn in 1968 after only 10 years in traffic.<br>
<br><br>[K A Gray //1960]](/images/22000/22590.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Larkfield Junction and carriage sheds in June 1962.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/06/1962]](/images/9000/9800.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![Caley Jumbo no. 57360 in steam at Polmadie MPD in July 1962. <br><br>[John Robin 20/07/1962]](/images/20000/20197.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Royal Scot 46165 <I>The Ranger (12th London Regt.)</I> runs west past Polmadie shed on 29 July 1963 with a train from North Wales. <br><br>[John Robin 29/07/1963]](/images/47000/47890.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![45155 passing Larkfield Junction on Edinburgh (Princes Street) - Glasgow (Central) train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/08/1964]](/images/9000/9805.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![Passing Larkfield Junction. 73109 takes the original Polloc and Govan route with C.T.A.C. Leicester-Gourock train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/08/1964]](/images/9000/9806.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![A Carlisle bound parcels train about to run past Polmadie on 30 March 1965 behind Britannia Pacific 70007 <I>Coeur-de-Lion</I>.<br><br>[John Robin 30/03/1965]](/images/45000/45984.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![HR 103 runs round the 1965 Scottish Rambler at West Street Junction, Glasgow, having returned from Terminus Quay. Note: the location just east of the junction, looking west.<br><br>[G W Robin 17/04/1965]](/images/21000/21249.jpg "West Street Junction")
![Awaiting their fate at Polmadie in June 1965 are A2 Pacifics 60535 <I>Hornet's Beauty</I> and 60527 <I>Sun Chariot</I>. The former is recorded as being officially withdrawn from 66A that month and the latter some 2 months earlier. Both were cut up at MMS, Wishaw, within a few weeks of this photograph. <br><br>[K A Gray 07/06/1965]](/images/34000/34746.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80118 at Polmadie in October 1965.<br><br>[K A Gray 20/10/1965]](/images/31000/31732.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Fairbairn 4Ps 42277, off Perth shed (63A), and 42195 outside Polmadie Shed (66A).<br><br>[Richard Mercer 19/12/1965]](/images/63000/63314.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![An assortment of steam and diesel on shed at Polmadie on the afternoon of 24 March 1967, including two Stanier Black 5s standing ready for their next tours of duty. Locomotive 45013, nearest the camera, subsequently took the 15.57 service to Gourock out of Central station.<br><br>[Colin Miller 24/03/1967]](/images/21000/21276.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![View of Polmadie shed looking to Rutherglen from the air. The M74 extension will shadow the main line on the north side.<br><br>[John Robin 23/08/1969]](/images/19000/19146.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Class 50s stand on Polmadie shed towards the end of 1969.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 16/11/1969]](/images/27000/27509.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![D433 stands in the shed yard at Polmadie in the winter of 1969/70 having arrived at Glasgow Central on the down Royal Scot (1S57).<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 16/11/1969]](/images/27000/27542.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Top link locomotive lineup at Polmadie shed on 18th January 1970. Nearest the camera is D445, followed by D448, D425 and D430.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/01/1970]](/images/2000/2595.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Thank goodness all those dirty, smoky, smelly old steam engines have gone!....Polmadie 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/01/1970]](/images/4000/4584.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Inside Polmadie shed - January 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/01/1970]](/images/4000/4585.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Class 47 no 1640 stands on Polmadie shed on 14 February 1970. The locomotive was allocated to Old Oak Common at the time and had worked in on car train 4S35, the 15.58 MXQ from Morris Cowley to Linwood.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 14/02/1970]](/images/31000/31120.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Class 45 no 34 stands on Polmadie shed on 14 February 1970. [This locomotive was one of the last quartet of class 45/46 examples to appear on Waverley route passenger duties, working the 1S22 21.15 St. Pancras to Edinburgh over the line on the early morning of Friday 3rd January 1969. D34 did not reappear on 1M10 09.30 Edinburgh - Carlisle so may have failed in Edinburgh and D188 covered the rest of the diagram for that day, while D160 and D60 performed on the Saturday and Sunday respectively.]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 14/02/1970]](/images/31000/31170.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Inside looking out. Class 37 no 6839 together with what is thought to be 6856 standing alongside a class 27 in the yard at Polmadie MPD on 14 February 1970.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 14/02/1970]](/images/31000/31262.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Class 50 locomotives nos D425 and D405 stand together in Polmadie shed yard on 14 February 1970. This was prior to regular double heading of Anglo-Scottish expresses north of Crewe, which commenced 3 months later. In this case locomotive D425 had recently arrived at Gushetfaulds FLT with 4S56, the 05.25MX service from London, York Way.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 14/02/1970]](/images/31000/31670.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![A general view of Polmadie shed yard in February 1970. Residents that day included class 45 no 34 on the right, class 37 no 6839 trying to emulate a steam locomotive on the left and Claytons 8562 and D8550 standing outside the shed.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 14/02/1970]](/images/31000/31872.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![An operational Clayton, no D8550, standing in front of Polmadie shed during a visit on 14 February 1970.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 14/02/1970]](/images/32000/32172.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Class 50 no D405 stands in the shed yard at Polmadie on 14 February 2010.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 14/02/1970]](/images/32000/32194.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Clayton no D8554, which doesn't look to be long for this world, stands in the yard at Polmadie on 14 February 1970. Note the two tenders in the background, probably of type BR1B or BR1C, formerly fitted to BR Standard Class 5s.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 14/02/1970]](/images/32000/32249.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Operational Clayton no 8562, photographed on Polmadie shed on 14 February 1970. The brazier also looks operational!<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 14/02/1970]](/images/32000/32326.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Clayton class 17 no D8519 looking forlorn at Polmadie shed on 27 February 1971.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/02/1971]](/images/17000/17438.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![The front of Polmadie shed on an overcast March afternoon in 1971. The shed yard seems strangely deserted, although the yellow ends betray the presence of locomotives of classes 17, 24 and 50 inside, while the silhouettes on the left suggest further variety in the shape of classes 08 and 20.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/03/1971]](/images/36000/36093.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![View south east from Polmadie Road bridge on 13 March 1971 showing Polmadie signalbox, a wartime construction dating from about 1940. Beyond the box on the left is the shed yard with the noses of a Clayton and an EE Type 1 visible, otherwise little sign of life.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/03/1971]](/images/36000/36123.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![A contrast in noses at Polmadie - class 50 No. 429, the now preserved class 40 No. 306 and an unidentified Peak, probably <br>
of the class 45 variety, in the yard on 13th March 1971.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/03/1971]](/images/36000/36224.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![A line up of Type 4 diesel power at Polmadie shed in March 1971, comprising two class 47s, Nos. 1842 and 1956 (?), class 50 No. 429 and green class 40 No. 306. Train 4S31 was an overnight Rootes/Chrysler company train from Gosford Green (Coventry) to Linwood [see image 6314].<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/03/1971]](/images/36000/36261.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Drivers-eye view along the former mainline platforms at Rutherglen in October 1993.<br><br>[David Panton /10/1983]](/images/19000/19471.jpg "Rutherglen (Old)")
![Polmadie Down Holding Sidings looking east. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8309.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![87 021 <i>Robert the Bruce</i> at Polmadie. Access by kind regards of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8310.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![86 402 at Polmadie. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8311.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![85 037 at Polmadie. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8312.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Looking east at Polmadie Down Holding Sidings. Depot off to left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8313.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![37 080 at Polmadie. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8314.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![37 178 at Polmadie. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8315.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![37 040 at Polmadie. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8316.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Carriages in the down sidings at Polmadie. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8317.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Westbound Ravenscraig-Hunterston coal empties passing Polmadie hauled by two 37s from the Motherwell steel pool. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8318.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![A pair of 37s on a Ravenscraig-Hunterston coal empties train heads west past 20 063 at Polmadie. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8319.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![08 735 by the M&EE Repair shop in the up yard at Polmadie. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8320.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![From Polmadie bridge looking east a short frieght can be seen passing. North British Locomotives Queen Park works was to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8321.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Larkfield Junction looking north. A pair of electric locomotives are about to leave with a freightliner train from Gushetfaulds - once site of a coal depot and South Side station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8322.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![Larkfield Junction looking west. Left to right; line to Muirhouse South Junction, General Terminus line (Burma Road), lines to Glasgow Central, Larkfield Carriage sidings and (out of site) Gushetfaulds freightliner terminal.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8323.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![Gushetfaulds Freightliner Terminal (now closed and lifted). Beyond and to the right is the site of South Side station (Barrhead Direct and Clydesdale Junction stations).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8324.jpg "Gushetfaulds")
![Rutherglen, closed mainline station, looking east. Near here the Polloc and Govan Railway and Clydesdale Junction Railway connected. Building on left demolished.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8536.jpg "Rutherglen (Old)")
![Rutherglen West Junction looking at the west to north curve.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8537.jpg "Rutherglen West Junction")
![Rutherglen West Junction looking to Glasgow. The closed mainline station is in the foreground.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8538.jpg "Rutherglen (Old)")
![The Glasgow portion of the mail train passing Larkfield Junction not long after leaving Glasgow Central. It would meet a portion from Edinburgh at Carstairs which would be added to the rear before continuing south as a combined train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/53000/53327.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![A tale of three quayside terminii. Windmillcroft Quay was the Clyde side terminus of the Polloc and Govan Railway. Riverside warehousing and the Kingston Dock were built here after the railway was cut back to the Tradeston Destructor. Euroyachts was established in the eastern part of a converted former warehouse. Just to the west was Springfield Quay, terminus of the Govan Waggonway and to the west of that General Terminus. The former warehouses are now gone and Tradeston Bridge crosses the river at this point. This view looks west in 1999.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1999]](/images/58000/58565.jpg "Windmillcroft Quay")
![Some sort of strange art piece at the former Gushetfaulds yard.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 29/01/2006]](/images/13000/13599.jpg "Gushetfaulds")
![Remains of points at Gushetfaulds on January 2006.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 29/01/2006]](/images/13000/13600.jpg "Gushetfaulds")
![Lever for moving a set of manual points. Gushetfaulds, January 2006.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 29/01/2006]](/images/13000/13601.jpg "Gushetfaulds")
![Disused building on the site of the former Gushetfaulds freightliner terminal in January 2006.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 29/01/2006]](/images/13000/13602.jpg "Gushetfaulds")
![A Virgin train passes the site of the Gushetfaulds Freightliner Terminal by Larkfield Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/06/2006]](/images/9000/9741.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![The Tuesdays only fuel empties from Riccarton, by Kilmarnock. This is the only regular train to use the line to Strathbungo other than ECSs.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/06/2006]](/images/9000/9742.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![Eastbound WH Malcolm train from Elderslie passes Larkfield Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/06/2006]](/images/9000/9743.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![The Tuesdays only fuel empties from Riccarton, by Kilmarnock. This is the only regular train to use the line to Strathbungo other than ECSs.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/06/2006]](/images/9000/9744.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![A coal train approaches Larkfield Junction from the east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/06/2006]](/images/9000/9794.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![Coal empties pass Larkfield Junction heading west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/06/2006]](/images/9000/9795.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![Glasgow Central - Kings Cross train approaching Rutherglen in August 2006 heading for its first stop at Motherwell.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/08/2006]](/images/10000/10300.jpg "Rutherglen")
![Coal empties westbound through Rutherglen on 15 August 2006 on their way back to Hunterston. (Taken through the cleanest window of the station's pedestrian walkway). <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/08/2006]](/images/10000/10474.jpg "Rutherglen")
![View south from Larkfield Junction during Sunday morning engineering works occupation on 1 April 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2007]](/images/14000/14285.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![Sunday engineering works at Larkfield Junction on 1 April 2007. The quadruple lines to the right are for Glasgow Central, the track machine is on the route through to Shields Junction, while branching off to the left are the lines to Muirhouse South Junction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2007]](/images/14000/14286.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![D5613 standing at Polmadie on 7 June. <br><br>[Jeff Hurst 7/06/2007]](/images/15000/15336.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Side by side: track replacement works on the West Coast Mainline next to the under construction M74 extension (right). Much of the Gushetfaulds Freightliner Terminal (not in view) has disappeared below the motorway works. The view looks west from Polmadie towards Larkfield Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/03/2009]](/images/23000/23325.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Looking north over Larkfield Junction at the remains of Gushetfaulds Freightliner terminal. The site has been landscaped in preparation for the M74 extension. A useful diversionary east to north curve could be put in here ... if space is left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/03/2009]](/images/23000/23328.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![View west over Rutherglen West Junction - and the remains of Rutherglen's mainline platforms (abandoned in 1979) on 1 June 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 01/06/2009]](/images/24000/24119.jpg "Rutherglen (Old)")
![The remains of the former main line platforms at Rutherglen in June 2009 looking west towards Glasgow Central. The platforms were abandoned when the Argyle line opened in 1979. <br><br>[David Panton 01/06/2009]](/images/24000/24526.jpg "Rutherglen (Old)")
![Voyager 221108 on a Birmingham New Street - Glasgow Central service approaching Larkfield Junction on 16th February 2010. To the left was Gushetfaulds freight terminal, now the site of major engineering works in connection with the M74 extension. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/02/2010]](/images/27000/27945.jpg "Larkfield Junction")
![The first of the new 380 units, no 380106 has now arrived at the Polmadie Commissioning Facility where it is seen in the sidings on 27 August 2010.<br><br>[Transport Scotland 27/08/2010]](/images/30000/30444.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![The first of a 38-strong fleet of Class 380 trains funded by Transport Scotland is pictured at the Polmadie Commissioning Facility sidings on 27 August 2010. It will undergo final commissioning before ScotRail brings the fleet into service under a rolling programme between October and March.<br>
<br><br>[Transport Scotland 27/08/2010]](/images/30000/30445.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![Initial checks underway as part of the commissioning process involving the new 380 units at Polmadie on 27 August. <br><br>[Transport Scotland 27/08/2010]](/images/30000/30455.jpg "Polmadie Shed")
![320s in a choice of liveries at Cambuslang on 25/06/2016.<br><br>[David Panton 25/06/2016]](/images/55000/55656.jpg "Cambuslang")
