Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works; Interior View showing overhead transverse crane
SC 608950
Description Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works; Interior View showing overhead transverse crane
Date 1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 608950
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 one of the two bays of the boiler shop, with its heavy cranes at the end. The bellied form of the crane girders is a sign of an early date, perhaps in the 1870s or 1880s. The making and repair of boilers was an important part of the business of a steam locomotive repair works, as a locomotive would generally wear out several boilers during its working life. Boilers were heavy and bulky objects, hence the height of the shop and the size of the cranes. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H68/452/1C
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