 Never a flourishing line, it closed to passengers in 1967, and to goods traffic in 1981.Paisley was an important Burgh at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and most passenger and goods journeys involved a passage along the River Clyde followed by the tedious and slow negotiation of the River Cart.This was such an obstruction that local promoters decided to construct a railway between Renfrew Wharf and the centre of Paisley.