Glasgow, General Terminus Quay View from WNW showing ship unloading with cranes in background
SC 549341
Description Glasgow, General Terminus Quay View from WNW showing ship unloading with cranes in background
Date 1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 549341
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Ore terminal, General Terminus Quay, Glasgow General Terminus Quay was built in the 1840s as the first main-line rail-served part of Glasgow Harbour. A new iron-ore handling terminal was built here to import ore for Clyde Ironworks and Ravenscraig Steelworks, superseding Rothesay Dock. This view shows the quay side of the facility, with the Greek ore carrier Nema being unloaded by the three gantry cranes. The conveyor system taking the ore to the storage bin can be seen on the right. The storage bin discharged into railway wagons, which were then hauled to the steel works. By the mid 1970s this terminal could not handle the majority of ore carrying ships, and it was supplanted in 1979 by a much larger facility down river at Hunterston Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/179/16
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