Inchgreen Graving Dock
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PlaceName and dates
Inchgreen Graving Dock (1964-)Opened on the Piers, Slips and Staiths.
Description
This large graving dock (dry dock) was opened in 1964 for the Firth of Clyde Dry Dock Co. Ltd at a site between Port Glasgow and Greenock. It is east of the James Watt Dock and west of the former Kingston Yard. The lock gate was built at the Fairfield Shipyard in 1962 and brought down the Clyde.
One of its first uses was as a fitting out basin for the Queen Elizabeth 2, built upriver in Clydebank at the Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Works, John Brown & Co's shipyard.
To accommodate it the Inchgreen Goods branch of the former Greenock and Ayrshire Railway was closed in 1961. The dock cuts through the site of the branch's reversing spur and the east end of its goods yard. The dock was not rail served, although there were rail mounted cranes.
The dock has seen little use in recent years and the dockside cranes were felled in 2017. House building has taken place to the east on the nearby Kingston Yard and Inchgreen Gas Works sites.
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Graving Dock Dry DockAliases
Inchgreen Dry DockExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
01/07/2022
| Nearby stations Bogston Cartsdyke Port Glasgow Whinhill Greenock Central Greenock Cathcart Street [1st] Greenock (Lynedoch) Upper Greenock Upper Port Glasgow Woodhall Greenock West Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] Greenock Princes Pier [1st] Drumfrochar Cardross | Inchgreen Gas Works Inchgreen Goods Ladyburn Shipyard Bogston Goods Inch Works (Engineering and Shipbuilding) Kingston Smithy Siding Clyde Pottery Ladyburn Junction Kingston Works (Engineering & Shipbuilding) Goliath Crane [Port Glasgow] Greenock Ladyburn Shed Argyll Street Goods Great Harbour [Greenock] Wemyss Bay Junction Gibshill Quarry |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1987 | Scott-Lithgow Ltd Block added to the MV Atlantic Conveyor [II] in Inchgreen Graving Dock to extend vessel. |
| /06/1997 | UiE Wins contract to fit out Balder FPU at Inchgreen Graving Dock. |
News items
| 27/04/2023 | Why a CalMac catamaran is such a big deal [BBC News] |
| 16/11/2021 | Dry dock brought back to use after two decades [BBC News] |
