Kilmarnock Locomotive Works, Worker's Housing General View
SC 588280
Description Kilmarnock Locomotive Works, Worker's Housing General View
Date 24/11/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 588280
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Workers' housing, Kilmarnock Railway Works, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire The Glasgow & South Western Railway built several blocks of houses for their employees in 1855, when it moved its main repair workshops from a cramped site in Glasgow to a much larger complex on the outskirts of Kilmarnock. This shows two of the blocks during demolition in 1966. They were typical of much 19th-century industrial housing, with four two-room houses in each unit, the upper ones reached by external stairs. By the 1960s they were unfit for habitation. Operations at the Kilmarnock Works were run down after the grouping of the railways in 1923, and the rump of the complex closed in the 1970s, and has been demolished. At the time of its construction it was a model railway works. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H66/122/2B
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