General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway
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| General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway Act 1846 | |
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| Act of Parliament | |
| Long title | An Act for making a Railway from the Polloc and Govan Railway to the River Clyde and Harbour of Glasgow, with Branches, to be called "The General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway." |
| Citation | 9 & 10 Vict. c. cxxx |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 3 July 1846 |
The General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway was authorised by the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. cxxx) 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, 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).