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Stobcross Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Stobcross Junction

Opened on the Glasgow City and District Railway.
Opened on the Stobcross Railway.

Description

This was the junction between the approach to the northern half of Stobcross Goods [NBR] (one of the terminii of the Stobcross Railway) and the line to Glasgow Queen Street Low Level (Glasgow City and District Railway).

The lines just west of the junction were quadruple. The northern two lines were the main lines (running east to Queen Street and the goods yard) and the southern two served the goods yard.

The signal box here closed in 1935, taken over by a new Kelvinhaugh Junction box, to the west.

The junction closed with the closure of Stobcross Goods [NBR].

Tags

Junction

Nearby stations Exhibition Centre Finnieston [1st] Yorkhill Kelvin Hall Kelvinhall [Subway] Cessnock [Subway] Govan Govan [Subway] Charing Cross [GC and DR] Ibrox [Subway] Anderston Partick [Subway] Merkland Street [Subway] Kelvin Bridge Partick	Stobcross Shed Finnieston East Junction Kelvinhaugh Goods Kelvinhaugh Engine Works Queens Dock Stobcross Low Level Ground Frame Kelvinhaugh Junction Kelvinhaugh Shipyard Yorkhill Tunnel St Vincent Crescent Tunnel Stobcross Depot Tunnel Kelvinhaugh Tunnel Tourist/other Kelvinhaugh Signal Box Scottish Event Campus St Vincent Crescent Signal Box
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

14/08/1960	Glasgow Central Railway Kelvin Bridge (excluded) to Stobcross Junction (excluded) closed to freight. Kelvinbridge signal box closed. Maryhill Central Junction to Kelvin Bridge remains open as a branch. The portion line from Kirklee Junction to Kelvin Bridge is singled and worked by one-engine-in-steam.