This railway is partly open to passengers and freight. The parallel City of Glasgow Union Railway has been retained between Cowlairs and Sighthill.
05/10/1981 | Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) Sighthill Goods closed. |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This is a four way junction. The 1842 Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway is met by the 1855 Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) and the 1858 Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway. The City of Glasgow Union Railway's north end reached here in 1875.
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This yard was on the west side of the Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway immediately south of Cowlairs West Junction. The yard was immediately east of the Cowlairs Carriage Sidings alongside the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The yard was a series of parallel dead end sidings accessed from the north.
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This works dated from 1861, being built alongside the still new 1855 Sighthill Branch of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at a green field site. It was opened by Neilson and Company. That company's previous works, Hyde Park Works [1st], was on Hyde Park Street, Finnieston, the same name being used for the new works.
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The City of Glasgow Union Railway ran from Cowlairs West Junction parallel to the Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) and a junction existed here between these lines and the exchange line to Sighthill East Junction on the Caledonian Railway. ...
More detailsAt this junction the Sighthill Goods line split from the Sighthill Loops. ...
More detailsAt this junction the goods lines within Sighthill Goods split into west sidings (the good sheds) and various stabling sidings to the east. ...
More detailsThis was the terminus of the Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) from Cowlairs West Junction. Until 1961 the yard was approached from the north, with the lines fanning out west to east. After 1961 the yard was approached from the east with the lines fanning out north to south over the same area and serving the same goods sheds to the west.
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At this junction the Sighthill Goods line split from the Sighthill Loops. ...
More detailsOriginally the Caledonian Railway's Sighthill Junction.
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