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[edit] Barrhead Branch

Barrhead Branch
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- - Paisley Canal Line
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Paisley West
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Corsebar Junction
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Meiklerigs Junction
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Potterhill Junction
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- - Paisley Canal Line
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Potterhill
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- - Paisley and Barrhead District Railway
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Gleniffer Goods Depot
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- - Paisley and Barrhead District Railway
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STRrg xKRZu eABZ3rg xKRZo eABZ3lf
- - Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
STR exABZrg exSTRrf exSTR
STR exSTR exBHF
Barrhead (New)
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Barrhead Central
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Barrhead
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- - Paisley and Barrhead District Railway
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- - Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway

This shortlived branch line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway connected the G&SWR Paisley Canal Branch to the G&SWR / CR Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway.

There was only one intermediate railway station at Potterhill, a short branch to Gleniffer Goods Depot and a terminus independent of the Caledonian Railway at Barrhead Central.

[edit] History

The line opened on 1 June 1886.[1] Passenger services ceased between Barrhead and Potterhill in 1913. After Potterhill closed to passengers on 1 January 1917 the line remained as freight only until closure in 1959.[2]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Butt, page 190
  2. ^ Stansfield, page 38

[edit] References

  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1.
  • Stansfield, G. (1999). Ayrshire & Renfrewshire's Lost Railways, Stenlake Publishing, Catrine. ISBN 1-8403-3077-5.
  • Jowett, Alan. (1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britian & Ireland, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1



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