Glasgow, Springburn Road, St Rollox Locomotive Works View from SW showing SSE front and part of WSW front of W block of 321-329 Charles Street
SC 602501
Description Glasgow, Springburn Road, St Rollox Locomotive Works View from SW showing SSE front and part of WSW front of W block of 321-329 Charles Street
Date 1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 602501
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content St Rollox Railway Works, No 130 Springburn Road and Charles Street, Glasgow This works was founded in 1856-7 by the Caledonian Railway, to build and maintain its locomotives and rolling stock. It was completely rebuilt in the 1880s to designs by Robert Dundas, engineer, under the direction of Dugald Drummond. This shows the offices in Charles Street, which complemented the main offices in Springburn Road, which they resemble in style. These offices probably served the carriage and wagon shops, which were on the south side of the works. The St Rollox Works was one of the four large works which made Springburn world-renowned as a centre of locomotive building, but it also turned out large numbers of carriages and wagons of the highest quality, and maintained them. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/363/2A
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