Salkeld Street Parcels Depot
Location type
PlaceNames and dates
Eglinton Street Goods (1840-1970)Salkeld Street Parcels Depot (1970-1990)
Opened on the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway.
Description
This was the Eglinton Street Goods depot of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway. It became the main parcels depot in Glasgow. Following this it was a permanent way base for First Engineering.
Access was from the west, from the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway. The original approach was from just to the west, but a longer goods only approach with sidings was installed, running west to the east end of Pollokshields station (Shields Road [GPJ].
This was a large and good example of a goods shed, modified, modernised and re-roofed. It was out of use and rail-less. The building, the last example of a major goods yard in Glasgow, has been demolished. The site is Network Rail's Salkeld Street Overhead Line Maintenance Depot.
The site is bounded by the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway to the west and north, the City of Glasgow Union Railway to the south and Salkeld Street to the east.
Tags
Goods ParcelsExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
Chronology Dates
| / /1842 | Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Short branch to Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal opened. (Eglinton Street Goods on the north side of the Port Eglinton Basin). |
| / /1864 | Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway New approach authorised to Eglinton Street Goods from the east end of Pollokshields station (Shields Road [GPJ]) authorised, providing a longer goods only approach and sidings. |
Books
 An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways |
