Rutherglen Tunnel

Location type

Bridge

Name and dates

Rutherglen Tunnel (1840-1915)

Opened on the Clydesdale Junction Railway.

Description

This short tunnel under Glasgow Road and New Road, Rutherglen, was west of Rutherglen West Junction and east of Shawfield Junction.

Initially a double track tunnel it was later increased to four (suspect single bore added to north and south).

It was fully opened out with the Glasgow Road being carried on a bridge and New Street being diverted to the south to form a new junction with Glasgow Road. Authorisation was given in 1910. (Built between 1910 and 1914.)

Tags

Tunnel
02/07/2020

Chronology Dates

  /  /1910Polloc and Govan Railway Clydesdale Junction Railway
Opening out of Rutherglen Tunnel - Glasgow Road Bridge lengthening and stopping up and diversion of New Street authorised.