RAILSCOT | Windmillcroft Quay Depot

Place

Windmillcroft Quay Depot (1840-1850)

Opened on the Polloc and Govan Railway.

This quayside depot was on the south bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow at Windmillcroft Quay.

Coal was exported from here between 1840 and 1850 via an extension of the Polloc and Govan Railway from Eglinton Basin (of the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal) to the Clyde. The approach to the quay was down was is now West Street.

It was very much eclipsed by the opening of the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway to the far superior new facilities at General Terminus in 1849.

The disused line was lifted in 1867.

Nearby stations Bridge Street Central Station Broomielaw Hoist Glasgow Central Low Level Bridge Street [Subway] St Enoch [Subway] West Street [Subway] Glasgow Central Anderston Glasgow St Enoch West Street Cumberland Street Shields Road [Subway] Dunlop Street Argyle Street Main Street Gorbals	Clyde Place Quay Windmillcroft Quay Broomielaw Quay Kingston Dock Vulcan Foundry [Glasgow] Clyde Viaduct [Glasgow Central] Dempster, Moore & Co Clyde Viaduct [Glasgow Central] [1st] Clyde Place Quay Travelling Crane Smithfield Works Napier and Crichton Boiler Workshop Clyde Iron Warehouse Anderston Tunnel Cook^s Works Tourist/other Clyde Place Signal Box
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.