Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway

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Glasgow Central River Clyde parts of former station reused as carriage sidings Glasgow Bridge Street Eglinton Street Goods Station Cook Street Mineral Station (G&SWR) Polloc & Govan Rly, Cathcart District Rly Glasgow, Barrhead & Kilmarnock Jt Rly West Street (Cook Street) City of Glasgow Union Railway General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway Shields Road Shields Junction (simplified) Princes Dock Joint Railway Paisley Canal Line Ibrox Ibrox East and West Junctions Govan Cardonald Cardonald Junction Glasgow and Renfrew District Railway Arkleston Junction Paisley and Renfrew Railway Paisley Greenlaw Goods Wallneuk Junction Paisley Gilmour Street Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Rly Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway

The Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway was the section of railway line between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Paisley, in the west of Scotland. It was constructed and operated jointly by two competing railway companies as the stem of their lines to Greenock and Ayr respectively, and it opened in 1840. The Joint Committee, which controlled the line, built a branch to Govan and later to Cessnock Dock, and then Prince's Dock.

With the passing of the Railways Act 1921 (Grouping Act) the line, together with the Caledonian Railway and the Glasgow and South Western Railway, became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS).

The line is still in heavy use today as the eastern end of the Inverclyde Line and the Ayrshire Coast Line.