Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works; Interior General View
SC 608933
Description Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works; Interior General View
Date 1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 608933
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 construction of one bay of the roof of the turning and machine shop, part of the original Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway workshops. The trusses are of the king post type, and the roof is extensively glazed. It is supported on cast iron columns and arched beams. This shop was on the eastern side of the works, next to the main railway line between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Its construction was unique in Scotland, and was rigid, light and beautiful. It was, however, demolished, with the rest of the works, in 1968. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H68/451/1C
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