Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works General View

Description Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works General View

Date 1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 608924

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Cowlairs Works, Carlisle Street, Glasgow This works was founded in 1842 by the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway as their Glasgow locomotive sheds and maintenance works. After the North British Railway absorbed the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway in 1865 it developed the works as its central workshops, moving the locomotive shed to Eastfield in 1904. This shows the east frontages of the wheel shops, in the course of demolition. These shops were probably built in the 1880s (right) and 1900s (centre), judging by the detailing of the brickwork. Note the trolley in the foreground, with its wheels arranged for easy manoeuvring with heavy loads. Cowlairs was fully equipped to build and maintain locomotives, carriages and wagons. Its foundry also made cast-iron components for stations and other railway buildings. It closed in 1968, and was quickly demolished. The site is now an industrial estate. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H68/450/2D

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