Cadder Yard: Cadder Yard looking west with signalbox to left.
Bill Roberton //1994

Cadder Yard

Location type

Sidings

Name and dates

Cadder Yard (1901-1980)

Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Opened on the Cadder Marshalling Yard and Colliery Branches (North British Railway).

Description

This was a large marshalling yard on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway built by the North British Railway. It was hump shunted. The northern part of the yard was looped and the southern part was originally a set of dead end sidings shunted from the west but later looped.

The principal use of the yard was to serve the goods yards at High Street Goods and Sighthill Goods allowing marshalling of trains from various locations surrounding Glasgow and only tripping to those yard the portions of trains which needed to travel there. Prior to its opening marshalling of trains was handled at the goods yard themselves leading to congestion. Later, in BR days, the yard also served College Goods.

The yard was modified by the BR 1950s modernisation plan but really just continued in its existing role.

A small part of the yard, really just loop on either side of the line and a few sidings, remain here. The yard closed in 1980 at the time when the major goods stations in Glasgow closed.

At the west end was the Bishopbriggs Oil Depot, partly built on the cut back remains of a colliery line which ran as far west as the Wilderness Plantation and crossed the Forth and Clyde Canal.

At the east end was a colliery line running south east, re-routed to suit the opening of the yard.

The yard was used as a depot during electrification of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

It is now an train servicing depot.

The yard had a private halt opened between 1899 and 1903 and closed around 1959. Initially there was no halt, the staff had to use other means to reach the yard.

Tags

Sidings marshalling yard

Aliases

Cadder Marshalling Yard

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map




Nearby stations
Lenzie
Kirkintilloch [1st]
Kirkintilloch Basin
Woodley
Back O Loch Halt
Bishopbriggs
Robroyston
Torrance
Kirkintilloch [2nd]
Stepps [1st]
Stepps
Balmore
Eastfield Platform
Springburn
Barnhill
Cadder Turntable
Cadder Siding
Westerhill Pipe Works
Wester Auchengeich Colliery
Bishopbriggs Oil Depot
High Moss Pit
Brickworks
Kirkintilloch Nickel Works
Kirkintilloch Precast Cement Works
Bishopbriggs Pit
Garngaber Yard
Woodley Junction
Woodley Lye
Tourist/other
Cadder East Signal Box
Cadder West Signal Box
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


E&G Mileposts


A milepost which was formerly at Cadder Yard, 'Edinburgh 41 - Glasgow 5', is at Haymarket station.

The 'Edinburgh 32 - Glasgow 14' milepost from near Dullator Colliery is at Glasgow Queen Street High Level.


Chronology Dates

  /10/1901Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
New Cadder Yard, a hump shunted marshalling yard, opened by the North British Railway. It was part of a much larger reorganisation of the NBR's goods facilities in Glasgow including rebuilding High Street Goods and Sighthill Goods, and the opening of Shettleston Yard, a further marshalling yard.

News items

10/12/2021Scotland's Railway opens £33million servicing depot [ScotRail]
27/05/2021Major £33m investment for Cadder rail yard upgrade [Network Rail]
01/07/2020ScotRail HST Depot planned for Cadder [Railways Illustrated]

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

An Illustrated History of Edinburgh's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

Central Glasgow 1893: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.10a (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Lanarkshire)

Edinburgh ( Western New Town) 1877: Edinburgh Large Scale Sheet 34 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Yard to the Mile)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Guidebook (Auld Kirk Museum Publications)
Edinburgh To Inverkeithing.: including The Port Edgar, North Queensferry And Rosyth Dockyard Branches. (Scottish Main Lines.)

Edinburgh Waverley

Edinburgh Waverley Station Through Time
Edinburgh's Transport: The Early Years v. 1
Glasgow Stations

Glasgow's Last Days of Steam

Haymarket Motive Power Depot Edinburgh: A History of the Depot, Its Work and Locomotives, 1842-2010

Landranger (66) Edinburgh, Penicuik & North Berwick (OS Landranger Map)

Last Trains: Edinburgh and South East Scotland v. 1

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

On Either Side, 1939: The Train between London King's Cross & Edinburgh Waverley, Fort William, Inverness & Aberdeen (Old House)

Rails Around Glasgow

The Next Stop: Inverness to Edinburgh, station by station

This Magnificent Line (the story of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian