General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway

[ ] General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway
General Terminus Quay Princes Dock Joint Railway Scotland Street Junction Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway City Union Line Polloc and Govan Railway Glasgow Central Muirhouse North Junction Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway Muirhouse South Junc. | Strathbungo Junc. Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway Cathcart District Railway

The General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway was authorised on 3 July 1846 and it opened, in part, in December 1848.

Its main function was intended to be the transportation of coal from collieries and Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, over other railways, to a coal depot on the south bank of the River Clyde.

It linked the Polloc and Govan Railway with the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway, the Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway and the Clydesdale Junction Railway.

On 24 July 1854 parts of the line were vested with the Caledonian Railway; and final amalgamation occurred on 29 June 1865.

In the 1921 Railway Grouping it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS).

From its terminus at the River Clyde, the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway proceeded to Scotland Street Junction, where one branch crossed under the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway to join the City Union Line at Port Eglinton Junction. The other branch crossed under both the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway and the Paisley Canal Line; before splitting at Terminus Junction. One branch joined the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilson Direct Railway and the Cathcart District Railway at Muirhouse Central Junction, the other branch passed through one of the Eglinton Street Tunnels and joined the Polloc and Govan Railway.

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