Greenock, Princes Pier
Container Terminal (20th Century), Pier (19th Century), Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Greenock, Princes Pier
Classification Container Terminal (20th Century), Pier (19th Century), Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Clydeport Container Terminal; Princes Pier Railway Station; Greenock, Albert Harbour Station; Inner Clyde Estuary; Upper Firth Of Clyde
Canmore ID 131523
Site Number NS27NE 56
NGR NS 2750 7710
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/131523
- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Greenock
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Inverclyde
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS27NE 56 2750 7710
For Albert Harbour (centred NS 27812 76812), see NS27NE 49.
Not to be confused with the pier at Whitefarland Point (NS 25872 78085), for which see NS27NE 394.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Opened, 23/12/1869 (Greenock and Ayrshire Railway)
Rebuilt, 1894
Closed to passengers, 02/02/1959.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Clydeport Container Terminal, formerly Greenock Princes Pier railway station built for the Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), 8 July 1998.
Note (6 June 2017)
Following the purchase in 1869 of the shoreline and small shipyards on it, Princes Pier was built in the early 1870s in order to facilitate the transfer of passengers onto ferries and steamers. The railway station on it was built in 1894, replacing an existing station to the SW. It closed to passengers in 1965 and was demolished two years later. The pier is still used for large container vessels and cruise ships.
Information from HES, Survey and Recording (AKK) 2 April 2017.
