At one point a number of small passenger ferries run by the Clyde Navigation Trust linked the north and south sides of the Clyde.

The Finnieston ferry ran from Elliot Street to Marine Street, Govan, the Govan ferry ran from Ferry Road to Water Row and the Kelvinhaugh ferry from Pointhouse Road to Highland Lane.

The Govan ferry service closed in January 1966 with Finnieston on April 1977 and Kelvinhaugh shortly afterwards, the little ferries made redundant by the building of the Clyde Tunnel, the Kingston Bridge and the modernisation of the subway.