View from NNe showing Finnieston 'Wee' Ferry departing N terminus

Description View from NNe showing Finnieston 'Wee' Ferry departing N terminus

Date 1975

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 796170

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content North terminal of Finnieston Ferry, Glasgow This view from the north taken in 1975 shows the Finnieston passenger ferry leaving its north terminal on Lancefield Quay. The south terminal is at the right-hand end of the white shed in the background. The double-ended vessel is diesel-powered, one of a series which replaced otherwise similar steamboats. There was also a vehicular ferry at Finnieston, operated by an elevating-deck vessel to take account of the effects of tides. Both Finnieston ferries were moved upstream in about 1930, when there was a plan to build a low-level bridge across the Clyde at the foot of Finnieston Street, the original ferry point. Because the expansion of Glasgow Harbour in the 19th century was largely linear, there was a demand for ferries which was met by the Clyde Navigation Trust. Passenger-only ferries were provided at intervals down as far as Meadowside. These were phased out in the 1960s and 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT133

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