Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works; Interior Detail of cast iron column and roof support
SC 608946
Description Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works; Interior Detail of cast iron column and roof support
Date 1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 608946
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 top of one of the columns flanking the central aisle in the turning and machine shop. The end of the arched beams appear to slot into the top of the column. The cast iron beams support the timber beams on which the ends of the roof trusses rest. The columns in the side aisles were similar, but had a slot in the head to take a longitudinal beam system running the length of the building, giving the roof structure a high degree of rigidity. This building was demolished in 1968, along with the rest of the building. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H68/452/1A
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