Cowlairs West Junction

Location type

Junction

Names and dates

Cowlairs Junction (1855-1878)
Cowlairs West Junction (1878-)

Station code: CWR National Rail
Opened on the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway.
Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Opened on the City of Glasgow Union Railway.
Opened on the Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway).

Description

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. In addition the Cowlairs Works was to the south, on the west side.

With the opening of a west (Cowlairs North Junction) to north curve (Cowlairs East Junction) in 1878 the junction was renamed from Cowlairs Junction to Cowlairs West Junction.

A signal box opened here in 1876. It was replaced in 1887 with a new box on the west side of the line, south of Hawthorn Street, which also controlled access to Cowlairs Works. This closed in 1956 when replaced by Cowlairs Panel Box.

Originally also known as 'Light Hill junction'.

Tags

Junction

Aliases

Light Hill junction
08/05/2020




Chronology Dates

28/05/1858Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Opened as single track from Cowlairs Junction to Bowling and Dalreoch Junction to Helensburgh. Due to a disagreement over station access charges between the company and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway the first trains ran to Buchanan Street using the Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) and a connection at St Rollox (Sighthill West Junction) with the Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway) line. The disagreement was resolved a month later. (Alternative date 31st.) Stations opened at (eastern portion) Maryhill, Dalmuir [1st] and Kilpatrick, and (western portion) Cardross and Helensburgh.
  /09/1904Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Eastfield Shed opened north of Cowlairs West Junction. The shed replaced the running shed at the Cowlairs Works
  /  /1991Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway)
Slow, goods, lines to south/west of Springburn station - Cowlairs West Junction to Sighthill Junction - lifted.

Books


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

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

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

Around Helensburgh (Archive Photographs: Images of Scotland)

Battrum's Guide to Helensburgh and Neighbourhood

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

Craigendoran and Helensburgh (East) 1897: Dumbartonshire Sheet 17.06 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Dumbartonshire)

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 Railway Memories

Glasgow Stations

Glasgow Stations

Glasgow's Last Days of Steam

Glasgow's Last Days of Steam

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

Helensburgh & Rhu Through Time

Helensburgh & the Rosneath Peninsula: The Guide Book: (Including Cardross, Garelochhead & Loch Long)

Helensburgh in Old Picture Postcards

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

Old Helensburgh, Rhu and Shandon

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

Rails Around Glasgow

Rails Around Glasgow

The Next Stop: Inverness to Edinburgh, station by station

The Railways of Glasgow: Post-Beeching

The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

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

Vanished Railways of West Lothian