Turkey Yard
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Turkey Yard (1890-1990)Opened on the Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway).
Description
This yard was on the west side of the Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway immediately south of Cowlairs West Junction. The yard was immediately east of the Cowlairs Carriage Sidings alongside the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The yard was a series of parallel dead end sidings accessed from the north.
The yard was established in the late 1890s by the North British Railway.
The yard was named for the United Turkey Red Company whose wagons were often marshalled here. The company was formed by a merger in 1898 and owned a number of works in the Vale of Leven at the Alexandria Works (Printing and dyeing), Cordale Works, Dalquhurn Printworks and Levenfield Works.
By the 1980s the yard was used for storing rolling stock from the nearby carriage sidings and a train washer was at the north end of the site. The sidings were largely lifted in 1989 with the last lifted to allow the Cowlairs Chord (British Railways) to be built in 1992.
The site of the sidings is now Network Rail's signalling centre and main Glasgow maintenance depot.
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SidingsExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
10/04/2021
| Nearby stations Cowlairs Springburn Eastfield Platform Ashfield Barnhill St Rollox [2nd] Glasgow (Townhead) Possilpark and Parkhouse Garngad Possilpark (Private) Possil North Buchanan Street Cowcaddens [Subway] Bishopbriggs St Georges Cross [Subway] | West of Scotland Signalling Centre Cowlairs Carriage Sidings Sighthill West Junction Cowlairs Mineral Yard Cowlairs Works Cowlairs South Junction Cowlairs Shed Ironstone Pit North British Railway Stores Cowlairs West Junction Hyde Park Works [2nd] Cowlairs Panel Box NBL Tanks Marne Factory Atlas Works [2nd] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
The BlocksThe North British Railway built accommodation for footplate crew on the high ground above Turkey Yard, on its north side (also above the Sighthill Branch and City of Glasgow Union Railway). These were baronial in style, built in heavy stone with crow stepped gables. Demolished in the late 1960s these were replaced with modern council housing. |
