CLYDEBANK RIVERSIDE STATION, Cunard Street & Atlas Street, Clydebank
ACCESS : Free to view from the street. This is now private housing.
Listed B.
You would hardly recognise this as a station anymore. It has been restored and converted into housing. But it retains it quaint architectural features of red sandstone.
John Hume tells us (through Canmore) that Clydebank Riverside Station was built in 1896 by the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway. It was a three platform through station, with the offices on the up platform. He describes the offices on the up platform as a one-storey brick and sandstone Renaissance style building with a hexagonal tower. (This was still the case in 1976, but bereft of its awnings).
The architect was probably J J Burnet.
This map of 1896 show a melee of railway lines serving the industries of this part of Clydebank. The station is indicated with a red star. However its layout looks different. As the current building was built in 1896 perhaps this map shows an earlier version. Also visible is the remaining section of the Forth and Cart Canal and the Clyde over-coloured in blue. NLS © as ref below.
By 1937 the area looked like this. Even more rails serving even more industry. The station platforms themselves are indicated by the small red star. The station building that served the platforms, ie where tickets were sold and one could wait is coloured in in red. That is much as it is today. NLS © as ref below.
BRITISH LISTED BUILDINGS with map : https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200358727-dalmuir-riverside-station-clyde-street-clydebank-clydebank
CANMORE : https://canmore.org.uk/site/128449/clydebank-clyde-street-clydebank-riverside-station
HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT SCOTLAND website on listing : http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB22988
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND : MAPS : Dumbartonshire Sheet XXV.NW. Date revised: 1896, Date Published: 1899. https://maps.nls.uk/view/75498405
and Dunbartonshire nXXIII.15 Revised: 1937, Published: 1939/ https://maps.nls.uk/view/82874370
RAILSCOT website : https://www.railscot.co.uk/locations/C/Clydebank_Riverside/
WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE HERITAGE TRAIL BROCHURE :http:// https://www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/media/2619058/clydebank.pdf
