The construction of the EERR link will provide an 'inner circle' connecting the new section of M74 at Polmadie Road with the M8 at Provan.
Walter Neilson stipulated that it should no closer than three miles to his new Hyde Park Works in Springburn, Glasgow; accordingly, Dübs chose a site in Queens Park in Polmadie on the south side of Glasgow, which began business as the Glasgow Locomotive Works in 1864.