Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works View from ESE showing S front of stores department
SC 588890
Description Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works View from ESE showing S front of stores department
Date 26/6/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 588890
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Cowlairs Railway Works, Carlisle Street, Springburn, Glasgow (Glasgow City council area) This works was founded in 1842 by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway as their maintenance and rolling construction workshops. It was adopted by the North British Railway as their principal works when they took over the E and G in 1865. This view shows the only street frontage of this very large works, with the gatehouse on the right and the stores department to the left. The latter was added in 1897. The works continued to maintain steam locomotives until the mid 1960s, as well as carriages, but with the end of steam haulage on British Railways it was closed and demolished. The site is now an industrial estate. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H66/45/2B
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