Wemyss Bay Shed
Location type
Loco shedName and dates
Wemyss Bay Shed (1865-1927)Opened on the Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway.
Description
This engine shed was on the west sde of the railway just north of Wemyss Bay station, north of the bridge over the A78.
It was built on a cramped site between the line and the road. IT was a single road shed with a signal box built on its east side next to the line. Entry into the shed was via the turntable, reached by a reversing spur which was approached from the A78 bridge.
The signal box was replaced with another on the same site in 1896, the start of the doubling of the railway.
The shed closed in 1927. The turntable remained in use and building was demolished.
The box closed in 1935 when the box at Wemyss Bay took over.
Tags
Locomotive shedExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Wemyss Bay Wemyss Bay [1st] Inverkip IBM Ravenscraig Branchton Drumfrochar Gourock Largs Fort Matilda Upper Greenock Greenock West Greenock (Lynedoch) Whinhill Greenock Central | Wemyss Bay Goods Finnockbog Siding Inverkip Power Station Inverkip Tunnels Daff Glen Viaducts Quarry Clocherlee Quarry Quarry Dunrod Loop Tourist/other Kelly House Wemyss House Castle Wemyss Inverkip House Skelmorlie Castle Innellan Pier |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
