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This is a four way junction. The 1842Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway is met by the 1855Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) and the 1858Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway. TheCity of Glasgow Union Railway's north end reached here in 1875. In addition theCowlairs Works was to the south, on the west side.
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This junction is at the western point of a triangular junction. It opened in 1876 when a chord fromCowlairs East Junction opened. The chord is presently single but was double. It links theGlasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway to theEdinburgh and Glasgow Railway and is effectively a Glasgow bypass.
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This is a minimal modern two platform station just west ofCowlairs North Junction.
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This was a double track junction between theGlasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway (1858) and theRuchill Goods Branch (North British Railway) (1879).
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This is a two platform station on the east side of Balmore Road, the A879. Facilities are fairly minimal consisting of shelters on the platforms.
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This station was west of Balmore Road. Nothing remains to be seen of it today. It was a basic station with platforms and shelter. After theGreat War it was an unadvertised station.
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The double track line passes under theForth and Clyde Canal via a pair of parallel single track tunnels. The original course of the canal was to the immediate south east, with the tunnel and deviation of the canal being built, and the canal diverted to accommodate theGlasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway.
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This was a two platform station to the west of West Possil Loch and theLochburn Iron Works. The main station building was on the eastbound (Glasgow) platform. When built it was in an area, largely of farmed countryside, north of Glasgow. To the south east the line passed under theForth and Clyde Canal.
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This is a minimal modern two platform station located in a deep cutting east of the Lochburn Road road bridge over the line. It opened with the re-opening of theMaryhill line to local passenger trains in 1993. Prior to that the line was only served by non stopWest Highland Line trains.
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This is a two platform station. The station serves the Summerston area. This development is a little south of Summerston Farm, which was served bySummerston [1st] station.
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TheKelvin Valley Railway (1879) met the existingGlasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway (1858) at a junction which allowed eastbound trains to take the branch from the main line. The junction was also known as Kelvin Valley Junction.
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This goods yard was to the east ofMaryhill station, on the south side of line. It was served from a goods loop, a pair of looped lines west to the west on south side of main line. The goods yard sidings were approached from east.
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This is a two platform station in the north of Maryhill. The current station is a reopening of 1993 on the site of the earlier station.Maryhill Park Junction opened to the west in 2005 along with a single track line to a bay platform atAnniesland.
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The site of this paper mill is now and area of grass parkland, within Dawsholm Park, on the west bank of the River Kelvin, just south of the old Dawsholm Bridge. The mill was opened byWilliam McArthur. It consisted of two ranges of buildings parallel to the river. A mill lade ran between the buildings and there were three small reservoirs to the west.
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This junction was immediately west ofMaryhill Park station and east of theMaryhill Viaduct [GDH]. It was formed with the opening of theStobcross Railway in 1874, a branch from the 1858Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway serving the west of Glasgow, Partick and theQueens Dock.
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This is a double track seven arch viaduct over the River Kelvin built for theGlasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway. During construction, in 1857, five arches collapsed (the viaduct may have originally had nine arches). Alternative names are the Dawsholm Viaduct (which can be confused with theDawsholm Viaduct a Dawsholm) and Kelvin Viaduct (could be confused with the [[Kelvin ...

This is a single lead junction, opened in 2005, west ofMaryhill station located about mid way over theMaryhill Viaduct [GDH], with the single line toAnniesland crossing over to the parallelMaryhill Viaduct [SR] at the west end of the viaducts.
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This signal box was west ofMaryhill Central Junction. It was located at the west end of a set of looped sidings on the south side of theGlasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway, the east end of these loops being atMaryhill Central Junction (that junction was renamed fromMaryhill West Junction on the opening of the west box and sidings).
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This is a single lead junction where the double track line betweenWesterton station andAnniesland is met by a single track fromCowlairs West Junction, this doubling shortly after the junction going east. (The junction has been converted into a single lead junction.) It is located just north of theForth and Clyde Canal.
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This is a two platform station, the junction between theHelensburgh line and theMilngavie line is immediately to the west.
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This junction is immediately west ofWesterton station. Here trains leaving Glasgow divide between the line west and theMilngavie branch.
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This was aMerry and Cunningham ironstone and coal colliery. It closed around 1879. Drumchapel Row was just to the north.
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This is a two platform station close to Old Drumchapel with Drumchapel to the north. The main station building is on the eastbound platform.
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This is a minimal two platform station.
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East ofSinger station theSinger Deviation (North British Railway) left the formerGlasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway. This signal box controlled the point of deviation between the original and deviation lines. The original line layout was altered at the junction to provide carriage sidings.Kilbowie [1st] station was closed and became goods sidings alongside the [[Singer ...

This was a huge sewing machine factory which was noted for its tall clock tower, 200 feet high, the second highest in the world. It was opened at Kilbowie in 1883/4 for a company based in the United States, the Singer Sewing Machine Company, replacing a smaller factory (of 1867) in Bridgeton,Singer Works [Bridgeton]. When opened the new factory was on a greenfield site with a low local ...

This was a two platform station opened in 1879 on a line opened in 1856. It was built just as the area became industrial, particularly just in advance of the opening of theSinger Works in 1884. It was located on the east side of Kilbowie Road, south of today'sSinger station (on the west side of the road) which replaced it. The station had its main building on the northern platform. There ...

This siding, east ofDalmuir [1st], was owned by W. V. V. Lidgerwood,Speedwell Iron Works. The siding made a trailing connection to the westbound line just east of the station.
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The works of Somervail & Co, builders of steel and iron bridges, roofs and general structural works was established byPeter Alexander Somervail in 1887. Products of this company (chiefly girder bridges although lattice footbridges and roofs were also manufactured) can be found all over the railway network in Scotland.
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This was a two platform station. In 1897 it was replaced byDalmuir on the west side of Duntocher Road when theGlasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway was extended by theNorth British Railway fromClydebank Junction west toDalmuir Park Junction.
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This is a five platform station. There are two platforms on theSinger route and to the north two platforms on theClydebank route and a bay to the north of those, served from theClydebank direction.
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This became a junction in 1897 when the formerGlasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway was extended west fromClydebank Junction west toDalmuir.
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This is a two platform station. An original single storey station building remains on the westbound platform (another example survives atCardross). The building is extended at the east end. The station is to the north of, and above, the village.
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These sidings were on the south side of the line east ofBowling station. They served both Bowling Harbour (north east corner) and Bowling Basin, the west end of theForth and Clyde Canal.
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This signal box was on the north side of the line, east ofBowling station oppositeBowling Harbour. It controlled access to the sidings on the south side of the line which ran toBowling Canal Basin, of theForth and Clyde Canal, just to the east and the quay and coal bunkering sidings at the east end ofBowling Harbour, served with mobile cranes.
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This is a two platform station in the south of Bowling at at the north west end ofBowling Harbour. Today it is a minimal station with platforms, shelters, parking and a footbridge. It has a interesting history. Between 1850 and 1858 it was a terminus for trains fromBalloch andDumbarton, passengers for Glasgow having to complete their journey by water. It was initially known as ...

This is a double track junction to the immediate west ofDalreoch station.
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There are two single bore tunnels west ofDalreoch Junction andDalreoch station on the route toHelensburgh Central and theWest Highland Railway. The tunnels are 603 yds long.
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After the doubling of theHelensburgh Central toDalreoch Junction line,Dalreoch Tunnels remained a single bore single track tunnel. This signal box protected the west end of the single track tunnel until the second bore was added. It remained in use afterwards until 1926. The box was renamed Dalreoch West. ...

This quarry is shown on the Railway Clearing House maps 66 chains west of the Dalreoch Tunnels.
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This is a two platform station which retains its originalGlasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway single storey station building on the eastbound platform. A similar building survives atKilpatrick.
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This level crossing is immediately west ofCardross station. ...

This level crossing is west ofCardross station and the station level crossing. It is also known as Geilston Level Crossing. To the west isGeilston Farm Level Crossing.
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An occupational level crossing to the west of Cardross. ...

There was a signal box here by the level crossing, on the east side of the line south of the crossing. The box closed in 1943, replaced byArdmore East Signal Box.
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This wartime signal box, of 1943, was north ofArdmore Level Crossing and located on the west side of the railway. The box controlled the approach to the south end ofArdmore Yard, associated withFaslane Military Port.
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This yard was built in theSecond World War, partly for the Clyde Boom Defence and, more particularly, for the marshalling of trains heading toFaslane Military Port, and other wartime sidings such as Craigendoran West and East Yards,Spean Bridge, {{Fort Augustus]],Mallaig Junction Yard,Annat Sidings orAchaleven Sidings. With theWest Highland Railway being single ...

This wartime signal box of 1943 was north ofMoss Road Level Crossing and located on the east side of the railway. The box controlled the approach to the north end ofArdmore Yard, associated withFaslane Military Port. The buffer stops of the eastbound yard were just to the south over Moss Road.
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This wartime yard was opened to the east ofCraigendoran Junction along withCraigendoran West Yard. Access was controlled by Craigendoran East signal box. The yard was laid out on the north east side of the line. It had two sets of sidings and a turntable, all approached from the west. The yards were used in combination withArdmore Yard forFaslane Military Port.
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The pier platform lines met theHelensburgh line east ofCraigendoran station. This was remodelled in 1894 into a junction proper when theWest Highland Railway opened. This was a double track junction, the West Highland becoming single track north ofCraigendoran Upper station.
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This wartime yard was to the north ofCraigendoran Junction. It was part of the provision of marshalling yards for theFaslane Millitary Port. A series of sidings, mostly approached from the east, was laid out.Craigendoran East Yard could be reached by reversal.
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This gas works was served by a siding on the south side ofHelensburgh Central and approached from the east. The siding crossed Princes Street just to the east of the Grant Street footbridge, dating from around the date of the reconstruction and enlargement of the terminus. Shunting within the works was by steam capstan.
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This two road shed was located to the north ofHelensburgh station and goods yard.
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This is a three platform terminus with a glazed roof. (It was four, but one platform's track is lifted.) There is a circulating area, covered by a glazed barrel ceiling with a small shop. The ticket office is by the main entrance off East Princes Street. At this entry is a two storey building facing the street, with a private lane on its west side. There is also a passageway entrance from the ...