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Glasgow, General Terminus Quay View of rail and conveyor system, crane in background

SC 554000

Description Glasgow, General Terminus Quay View of rail and conveyor system, crane in background

Date 1978

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 554000

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 covered conveyors leading from the cross-road conveyor on the left to the ore bin, out of sight to the right. One of the ore-unloading cranes is in the centre. 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 H78/257/15

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/554000

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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