Industrial & Private Lines: Renfrewshire

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County pages contain details of Industrial and other Private lines that do not form part of any of the principally listed companies on this web site. RailRefs generally remain un-numbered in the county lists.

In the list below the information is set out in tabular form, spread over four columns. The column entries are -

RailRef	The Line Code used in RailRef system.
Line Detail	The principal locations included within the Line Code. They are arranged in 'down' direction order. Locations shown are primarily stations and junctions to allow easy cross check against published atlases. Signal box names appear in italics where these are 'intermediate' to stations or have been shown to facilitate links from other pages on this web site. The inclusion of a station or junction name does not imply that there was always a signal box of that same name!
SBR	The section reference used in the relevant Signal Box Register published by the Society.
ELR	The corresponding Engineer's Line Reference(s). This will be blank for railways that never came within British Railways terms of reference. It will also be blank where British Railways had no surviving responsibility for infrastructure at the time the ELR system came into use.

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RailRef	Line Detail	SBR	ELR
ENTRIES BELOW ALL HAD THEIR OWN LOCOMOTIVES
Renfrew
Off	NS 493 668 and NS 495 666. Babcock & Wilcox Ltd, boiler makers.
Giffnock
Off	William Beardmore & Co Ltd.
Tradeston Works, Glasgow
Off	NS 582 636. Glasgow Corporation Gas Department until 1949; then Scottish Gas Board until 1972; then British Gas Corporation, Scottish Region. Also narrow gauge until 1953.
Greenock Works
Off	British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd.
Renfrew Soap Works
Off	British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd.
Ferguslie Pottery, Paisley
Off	Robert Brown & Sons Ltd.
Greenock Shipyard
Off	Caird & Co until c1914; then Harland & Wolff Ltd. Closed c 1930.
Thornliebank Works, near Glasgow
Off	NS 544 592. W A Crum & Co until c1905; then Calico Printers' Association Ltd. Closed c 1930.
Renfrew
Off	Carntyne Steel Castings Ltd. Closed c1963.
Linwood
Off	NS 457 640. Pressed Steel Co Ltd; then Rootes Pressings (Scotland) Ltd; then Chrysler (Scotland) Ltd.
Glasgow
Off	Clyde Steam Navigation Trust, incorporated 1858. Traffic working taken over by main line railways.
Ferguslie Mills, Paisley
Off	NS 462 633. J & P Coates Ltd. Siding connected to former CR and shunted by LMSR from c1927.
Caldedonia Works, Paisley
Off	NS 478 645. A & F Craig Ltd. Narrow gauge.
Ardgowan Distillery
Off	Distillers Co Ltd.
Thornliebank, near Glasgow
Off	Dunlop Cotton Mills Ltd.
Shieldhall Sewage Works, near Renfrew
Off	NS 538 663. Glasgow Corporation Sewage Department.
Nitshill Fireclay Works, Nitshill, near Barrhead
Off	NS 529 595. Alan Kirkwood Ltd. Track lifted 1959.
Renfrew
Off	Lobnitz & Co Ltd, engineers and shipbuilders. Site prucahsed by T W Ward 1963.
Inkerman Ironworks, Paisley
Off	NS 455 645. Merry & Cunninghame (Ltd from 1890) until 1921; then Walkinshaw Brick Co Ltd.
Royal Ordnance Factory, Bishopton
Off	NS 438 703. Ministry of Defence. Also extensive narrow gauge.
Houston, Georgetown, near Paisley
Off	Minitry of Munitions. Closed 1919.
Royal Ordnance Factory, Linwood, near Paisley
Off	NS 455 638. Ministry of Supply but operated by Wm Beardmore & Co Ltd. Part of works later to Pressed Steel Co Ltd.
Laighpark Harbour
Off	Paisley Borough Council
Hillington, near Paisley
Off	Rolls-Royce Ltd; then Scottish Industrial Estates Ltd. Rail traffic ceased 1968.
Inchgreen Gasworks, Greenock
Off	Greenock Corporation Gas Department until 1949; then Scottish Gas Board. Closed c1968.
Paisley Gasworks
Off	NS 477 643. Paisley Corporation Gas Department until 1949; then Scottish Gas Board. Rail connected part demolished c1966.
Paisley
Off	Richard Smith Ltd; then Scottish Tar Distillers Ltd. Demolished 1964.
Cartsburn Shipyard, Greenock
Off	Shipyard NS 302 754, Engineering Works NS 302 753. Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd; then Scott-Lithgow Ltd.
Braehead Power Station
Off	NS 518 673. British Electricity Authority; then South of Scotland Electricity Board. Shunted by BR from 1971.
Sandyford, near Paisley
Off	Washington Chemical Co Ltd.