Hyndland Power Box

Location type

Place

Name and dates

Hyndland Power Box (1960-1989)

Opened on the Stobcross Railway.

Description

This panel box was located south of Hyndland station (opened 1960) on the west side of the line, with the reversing spur for the caley yard on its west side. The bridges over Clarence Drive are to the south of the site.

It closed, taken over by the Yoker Signalling Centre, in 1989.

The box building survived for many years.

The panel box had taken over the following boxes on its opening:

1960
Knightswood South Junction Partick Junction Whiteinch East Junction Whiteinch West Junction
1961
Hyndland [1st]

1979
Kelvinhaugh Junction
In addition, in 1979, the box controlled the new Argyle Line as far as Dalmarnock beyond which the Glasgow Central Power Box controlled the line,

Tags

Signal box panel box

Aliases

Hyndland Panel Box
04/07/2019

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 Glasgow's Railways