 The Caledonian Railway had no access to any of the industry and dock sites on the north bank of the Clyde west of Stobcross (except at the Bowling canal basin of the Forth and Clyde Canal, having bought out the canal in 1853).The company used a variant spelling of 'Dunbartonshire'.In 1891 a Parliamentary Bill was submitted for the "Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway" (L&DR).