East India Harbour

Location type

Sidings

Name and dates

East India Harbour (1809-1973)

Opened on the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway.



Chronology Dates

  /  /1837Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
Dellingburn Branch to East India Harbour authorised. (This proposed route not built at this time.)
  /  /1840Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
Original plan for the Dellingburn Branch abandoned. Revised Greenock to Dellingburn Street and thus to East India Harbour and Victoria Harbour authorised. Access at Greenock would be by reversal. Locomotives were prohibited from the branch.
  /  /1843Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
Dellingburn Branch opened from Greenock to East India Harbour and Victoria Harbour. An elevator connects the station to the branch line.

News items

08/08/2023Inverclyde history: East India Harbour thrived in the 1970s [Greenock Telegraph]

Books


Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History)