Cambuslang Goods

Location type

Sidings

Name and dates

Cambuslang Goods

Opened on the Clydesdale Junction Railway.

Description

This goods station was to the north of Cambuslang station, not directly next to the station but at Silverbank. It was on the west (or south) side of the line, approached by reversal. There was a goods shed, sidings and crane. It was connected to the slow line for Rutherglen East Junction, to the west. There was a signal box west of the yard on the south side of the line. This closed in 1973 when control passed to Glasgow Central Power Box.

Tags

Goods sidings
06/07/2019

Chronology Dates

20/11/1868Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Clyde Iron Works branch ('Lanarkshire and Midlothian Branches' railway number 8) opened from the new Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) (1865), replacing earlier Clyde Iron Works Railways which ran directly from Cambuslang Goods on the Clydesdale Junction Railway.