Faslane Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Faslane Junction (1941-1980)Opened on the West Highland Railway.
Opened on the Military Port Number 1 Railway.
Description
This junction was installed in the Second World War. It was a double track junction as a long loop was put in on the West Highland Railway and the connection to the Military Port Number 1 Railway yard was double track. Faslane Junction Yard was just to the north on the branch.
The signal box was on the west side of the line with a footbridge to it immediate south and the road access to Stuckenduff Farm passing below just to the north. The box opened in 1941.
The box was closed in 1953 when it was replaced with a ground frame. The branch connection survived until 1983 and track was still in place in 1987.
Faslane Platform was a halt just east of the junction. It was used in connection with the carriage of prisoners-of-war and civilian contractors building the Loch Sloy Hydroscheme and the halts at Inveruglas and Glen Falloch Platform.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Faslane Platform Shandon Rhu Faslane Port Helensburgh Upper Garelochhead Helensburgh Central Helensburgh Ticket Platform Craigendoran Pier Craigendoran Upper Craigendoran Whistlefield Halt Gourock Fort Matilda Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] | Faslane Junction Yard Hattonburn Yard Timbacraft Yard Tourist/other Shandon Pier Blairvadach House Shandon House Gare Loch Shandon Castle Laigh Balernock Level Crossing West Shandon House Barremman Pier Henry Bell^s Grave High Balernock Level Crossing Balernock Pier Glenarn Gardens |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 27/04/1941 | West Highland Railway Military Port Number 1 Railway Faslane Junction junction and signal box opened with a loop on the main line, double track junction and exchange sidings for the railway to Military Port No 1, Faslane Military Port. |
| 20/09/1953 | West Highland Railway Military Port Number 1 Railway Faslane Junction signal box closed replaced by a ground frame. |
| / /1980 | West Highland Railway Military Port Number 1 Railway Faslane Junction ground frame and junction taken out about this date. |
