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People have often wondered how Clydesdale
Cricket Club got its name, and given the fact that

the club was the result of a merger between the
Thistle and Wallace-grove Cricket Clubs, the new
club’s name was perhaps derived from a local
source and reflective of events that were
happening close by.

The General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour
Railway had been commissioned in July 1846 and
opened in December 1848. For its completion,
land had been required to be given up by the
owners.

The main purpose of the railway was to be for the
transportation of coal from various collieries in
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire over other railways, to a
coal depot on the south bank of the River Clyde.

This new railway linked the Polloc and Govan

Railway with the Glasgow and Paisley Joint
Railway, the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr
Railway and the Glasgow, Barrhead and
Kilmarnock Joint Railway, however, there was a
local line already in place and it was being used as
the central point of convergence for the new
General Terminus in Kinning Park, and this line
was called the Clydesdale Junction Railway.

One of Clydesdale’s early patrons, the Earl of
Eglinton and Winton, was a financial beneficiary
of the creation of The General Terminus and
Harbour Railway in Kinning Park.